MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) will install four navigation lanterns in Batanes to ensure the safety of fisherfolk and seafarers passing along the province’s coasts.
In a ceremony on Saturday at its headquarters in Manila, the PCG sent off its offshore patrol vessel BRP Gabriela Silang (OPV-8301) — PCG’s second-largest and most modern vessel — to install the lanterns in four critical lighthouses in the towns of Sabtang, Mahatao, Ivana and Valanga.
The lighthouses guide motorboats and vessels to ensure their safe passage and entry.
The Coast Guard Station Batanes secures the archipelagic province of Batanes, the northernmost province of the country, which is composed of six coastal towns with 29 barangays.
The province’s 106-km coastline and sea are monitored by three PCG substations in Sabtang, Itbayat, and Ivana.