Despite the lingering presence of several China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels around them, personnel of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources...
In a post on January 4, Rachelle Ureta of the MUCHD of the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) wrote that in 1985, together with the French team of underwater archeologist Franck Goddio, their electronic surveys searching for a British East Indiaman vessel Royal Captain, accidentally found the presence of a much older cargo hidden in a coral structure.
The NMP wrote that in 1985, World Wide First (WWF) led by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio partnered with them to look for the remains of the East India Company ship Royal Captain, a vessel that was commissioned to bring goods to Canton, China to the free port in Balambangan Islands then to England.
A motorboat ferrying residents of Pag-asa Island, Kalayaan town in the West Philippine Sea was rescued by the Philippine Coast Guard on Saturday after...
