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A SEA mishap in the waters off Verde Island in Batangas on Wednesday left two people dead and two others wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coast Guard Station Batangas commander Capt. Jerome Jeciel reported that the fatalities were a boat captain and a crew member of Hop & Go 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two Chinese passengers were wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), passenger ferry Ocean Jet 6 was on its way to Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro from Batangas while the water taxi Hop & Go 1 was en route to Batangas from Puerto Galera when the collision occurred.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The water taxi was carrying two other Chinese passengers and one Swedish passenger during the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PCG said all 115 passengers and 19 crew members of Ocean Jet 6 were safe and in good physical condition when they arrived at the Calapan Port.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe responding team is towing Hop & Go 1 to Puerto Galera, where its yard is located,\u201d Jeciel said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Batangas Coast Guard official said the wounded passengers were given medical assistance while authorities are coordinating with the bereaved families of the two Filipino crew.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PCG commander Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan has ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the sea mishap.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A SEA mishap in the waters off Verde Island in Batangas on Wednesday left two people dead and two others wounded. Coast Guard Station Batangas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3626,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}