MV Doña Paz: The Deadliest Maritime Disaster in History
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- This is one of those events that you probably should have heard of, but your history textbook made other choices.
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Titanic: not enough lifeboats for passengers.
Doña Paz: not enough ship for passengers.
No working radio on board either... The Titanic at least had a means of long range communication.. the Dona Paz had none.. Vector also did not have a working radio.. Unbelievable to think... Two ships sailing in 1987 had no working radios whilst a ship sailing in 1912 had at least working long range communications equipment.. How was Dona Paz cleared to sail without a working radio and being overloaded to capacity... -_-
I live in Mindoro Island, one of the islands that surround Tablas Strait where Doña Paz sank. I was born a year after but my grandpa used to tell me that they avoided eating fish for a year after the disaster because of the rumors that many of the bodies were eaten by fish because many of those who died were never recovered. There were even stories that rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces were found inside bellies of fish caught around the area where the disaster happened.
Rings and shoe laces were actually found in some fish after that
Oh myy
Yup, I have heard about that.
During large typhoons in the area, whenever there are casualties, my parents forbade us to eat seafoods. My dad, when he was still alive, never ate squid at all.
the fire from the ship was seen from lemery batangas.
One of the survivors is a man who sells umbrellas and lives in our town. According to him, he was surrounded by fire when he swam up after he got pushed on the water from the crowd. He lost his wife after he fell and had several burn marks from the flames, he was able to survive because he was splashing the water around the flaming parts to prevent himself from inhaling more fumes until he found a wood to get on. Then he said that he was surrounded by bodies who disappeared seconds later and that's when he knew that the sharks were already having a feast. He passed away a few years ago, he has lived all by himself to mourn for his wife's loss year after year.
I fcking respect people like that....who stay loyal beyond death.
I hate how everyone always re-marries. I look down on that alot. Pure Hedonism. Marriage for pure pleasure is just sick imo.
Marriage should only be for people who plan to have kids--you have all the fun in the world and do whatever you want-but the reason you got there needs to be for kids ...this is how it is done in places and times where divorce rates aren't 60% to 95%.
Nevermind the fact that you would just be contributing to the further degradation of the institution, and you'd be a complete S#MP for it anyway for getting married for such pointless reasons.
Are you telling the truth? First you say he lives in your town selling umbrellas and later you say he died a few years ago.
@@edmundpower1250 no, I guess he meant he USED to sell umbrellas
@@edmundpower1250english isn’t everyone’s first language
Just to be clear the sinking of the MV Doña Paz was the deadliest *PEACETIME* maritime disaster.
Deadliest, ever.
@@Hi11is wilhelm gustloff is deadliest overall
@@n8th899
You're right, the source I used separated WWII sinkings and I didn't notice, there were eight maritime disasters more deadly than this one during WWII.
I was wondering. Cause I thought the ship that exploded in the Huston harbor in the early 1900's was the worst.
@@n8th899 couldn't argue with that but my point is this pertains to peacetime. I mean there are a lot of sinkings worse than Doña Paz but those occurred during wartime.
The company has been involved in 45 maritime accidents between 1980 to 2008, with the last one on June 21, 2008 with allegedly about 800 passengers declared dead or missing. The company then decided to just focus on cargo and then changed the name.
that last one was the MV Princess of the Stars right? that tipped over and turned upside down during a typhoon, trapping 800 people on board and drowning them to death.
Most known ones were Doña Paz, Doña Marylin, Princess of the Orient, Princess of the World, and the last one that lost them their passenger transport privileges Princess of the Stars
Despite they are now cargo shipping company, they still cause accident for 2go MV Thomas Aquinas
@@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569
Sulpicio was forced to “change name” because they were no longer allowed to operate after several other tragedies. Yes, that wasn’t even the last one.
Interesting how that works. The company is banned from operating ships, but the people who own the company can just form another company.
They’re no longer in the passenger business though. And Philippine maritime safety record has dramatically improved since then.
I remember the shipping company gained a notorious moniker, "Suspicious Lines."
There was alot of anger generated during this event but since a high majority of the passengers were in low social economic status, it was
quicky forgotten.
As a Filipino, it still breaks my heart everytime I read or hear about this Tragedy. I hate calling this tragedy an accident because the company murdered these people. Their negligence was murderous.
Walang may pake
@@millennialwaffen1382 it got your attention...hmm...
@@millennialwaffen1382 bakit ka nag comment?🤫
@@millennialwaffen1382 tanga
It's absolutely disgusting, and I truly am flabbergasted that I have never heard of this. I was 12 around the time it happened. I assume it got lots of global coverage, I don't know how I'd never read or seen anything. How horrific!
My aunt was supposed to have taken Doña Paz on that fateful day and in fact her name is listed in the passenger manifest. Thankfully, by some circumstance or other, she wasn't able to go through with her trip and avoided being a statistic.
What's her reaction when the Dona Paz collided with another ship
@@axcelplegino6228 I was told that her name was actually on the ship's manifest (the passenger list) but she didn't find out about the disaster until about a day or two afterwards and I can only imagine the shock and horror she felt after learning about her narrow miss mixed in with the intense gratitude for having been spared the ordeal that claimed the lives of thousands.
The sinking of Dona Paz is just the beginning of the Sulpicio Lines misfortunes. They have involved in numerous disasters that only results in small number of survivors after that. The last disaster they have is when the current company's cargo ship collided with a ferry ship that resulted in more than 50 deaths.
Unlike the Titanic that sank in the middle the ocean, this happened in a populated area, bodies were washing up on the shores of nearby villages and getting tangled in villagers fishing nets for weeks afterwards.
i was young then when it happen , and all of the price of all fish products was drop , my mother told me no one wanted to buy fish for the whole month because of the dead bodies floating for every parts of every islands nearest from the scene , squid , cattlefish alike are those forviden to eat said by the phil coast guard because they say in the interview that those creatures are the ones that feed on the dead bodies floating in the sea.
Sulpicio Line was known as Suspicious Line because of so many of its ships sinking or breaking down. Blood is still on the hands of its owners, regardless of changing its name.
Sulpicio Lines Inc. was dubbed as the shipping coffin by the local media because of its 45 incidents which resulted the tragic events althrought its 40 years of operation forcing its family owners to switch its company name to Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corp. and also changing services from passenger to freight services.
I've actually ridden a few of thier ships bound for Puerto Princesa where one of the tragic incidents happened. At least, it was just the boat that sank with little to no casualties.
Even then, I think people thought that it would be better to go there by plane.
But apparently, even though they changed their name, they were still involved in another tragic accident involving 2GO's MV St. Thomas Aquinas in 2013. Their cargo ship named MV Sulpicio Express Siete crashed unto the passenger vessel in Cebu, causing it to sink.
@@alitheakorogane yes, I remember that in the news. Sad that many people perished in that tragedy. May those souls rest in peace.
for the record, the ship that rescued those few who survived the _Doña Paz_ sinking was named MS _Don Claudio._
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff took nearly twice as many lives, and is also largely unknown.
Yeah, I don't know 🤷♂️
Shawn Keith- You beat me to it, Estimates for the Wilhelm Gustloff was up to 11,000 lost.
And the SS Steuben and the freighter Goya. Also the freighter Cap Arcona who had Pow's on board and was attacked by British bombers. I'm not saying it wasn't a tragedy wat happened to the Doña Paz, but this was a ship in peace time and the passengers boarded voluntary, knowing it was overcrowded. Being torpedoed by a Russian submarine when you just survived those same Russians and the deadliest winters in living memory has between 50.000+ and 100.000+ people there lives. Because they were Germans no one cared, but there deaths must be remembered just as all the soldiers who gave their lives for that case.
I think worst here is referring to the fact that there wasn't enough lifejackets (or any in this case), 7x to many people, the crew wasn't helping, the captain had no clue what was happening, oil was spilled, there was fire?????, I can see the reasoning for this being the worst but not the most fatal
was just about to comment that MV Dona Paz is the worst peacetime* maritime disaster, there are at least 6 disasters that were worse in WW2:
The Wilhelm Gustloff
Goya
Armenia
Junyō Maru
Toyama Maru
Ryusei Maru
Sulpicio wasn’t finished after the Dona Paz. Her sister ship M/V Dona Marilyn went down with 400 souls in a typhoon the following year.
And then there was MV Princess of the Stars in 2008. That was EVERYWHERE in the news when I was a kid.
For anyone who has ever travelled on a Filipino ship or ferry on internal routes, what happened on the Dona Paz would hardly be a surprise. Some of the poorest safety records in the world and safety regulations that are a joke.
I actually remember this in the news at the time it happened. It really doesn't surprise me that no fault was ever found. In that part of the world, bribery is king, and everyone in the public service is for sale. What does surprise me, I suppose, is that the executives of that company were not simply lynched.
Kinda like the USA
Nowadays that stuff isn’t tolerated, the coast guards hands out violations whenever a ferry is overboard. But President Cory Aquino, the president at the time, was corrupt af, so it was not surprising that they got away.
@@pdenigma9444 hah. Let's not get this thread overrun 😂
@@mnm2156 Will be interesting to see the debate war that might spark out xD
@@pdenigma9444 Oh please my grandfathers toilet got clogged up in 1989 was it Cory fault?
Simon: Because this company still exists, and we don't want to get sued; all of this is "fully alleged".
Business Blaze is slowly creeping into all facets of Simons "Fact Boi" empire.....
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Dude I'm from the Philippines. This really happened. Sad to see because the passengers here are usually the "poorest of the poor".
Our school immersion trip requires us to take a trip on a ship like this with a third class ticket in order to be able to experience extreme poverty and to build empathy.
The word maru (丸, meaning "circle") is often attached to Japanese ship names. ... The term maru is used in divination and represents perfection or completeness, or the ship as "a small world of its own". The myth of Hakudo Maru, a celestial being that came to earth and taught humans how to build ships.
Had to look that up after seeing the name on a few ships from Japan.
I had read that the reason Japanese ship names use the term "maru" is that like a circle, they will end at the same position that they started....meaning they are blessed with a safe voyage and will return to their original port. I am certainly no expert....just relaying what I have read.
Sulpicio is pronounced like "suspicious", that's why the joke here is the company was known as Suspicious Lines
Or perwisyo lines
My Grand mother, auntie and uncle died in this tragedy. And their bodies were never recovered.
My condolences.
So sorry to hear that. May God bless their souls .🙏🏼
Condolences 💐
They are now one with the sea
Hugs.
A video on the MV Wilhelm Gustloff sinking would seem a good natural follow up to this, being the deadliest wartime shipping disaster.
Yep
In naval academies and maritime schools they discuss this incident as a cautionary lesson to would be mariners. Even months after the incident they were still gathering bodies in Tablas Strait and nearby islands. They label this as Asia's Titanic.
According to what I heard, My Lola and Aunty (father's mother and sister) were supposed to board there to visit my father in Manila, but for some reason weren't able to. Since there's no such thing as cellphone back then he didn't know they were unable to board (the "telegrama" took several weeks to reach it's destination).. When he learned of the disaster he was among those who went to identify the bodies of their loved ones. He couldn't find their bodies, he assumed they were lost in the sea.. I can only imagine his relief when he learned they weren't able to board the ship that day. My parents haven't even met yet at that time.
It's insane that given the horrific death toll, that I've never heard of this disaster, even though it only happened less than 35 years ago.
As Filipino, I am genuinely concerned and disgusted that this company is still afloat (unlike many of their other ships)
lol really? you might be surprised that a lot of the shipping companies in the Philippines are owned by the same family (the Go's) or related to them. does that disgust extend to them? if so you might forever consider avoiding travel by sea in ph :D
@@gc7673 Well yes it does, my family has always used Super Ferry or 2GO if we travel by sea. The thing that disgusts me the most is that these are detailed, well publicised incidents which have been circulated in the media for years and yet due to their wealth and connections, nothing has been done to improve their safety records or tighten the regulations about ship maintenance, crew training and even passenger safety
@@gc7673 the family of bong go?
@@christiancleofas7451 i have no idea if bong go is related to the shipping tycoons that own psacc and their sister companies.
You can express your opinion without telling us you're a Filipino. Annoying af
Sadly, there are a lot of incidents like this that people don't know about.
People know about them but they're not sexy enough for the media. If the Titanic had been carrying 4000 African, Irish, Chinese and Indian factory workers would there have been one movie ever made?
Like the sinking of the M/S Estonia
@jayzee a lot of people know about the Sewol ferry already because of the documentary
@jayzee look up the m/s estonia too
I didn't even know about this one and I'm glad I watched this. My goodness, this left me so sad.
Alas her sister ship Dona Marilyn sunk also during a typhoon a year after.
I’d love to see a video about the Edmund Fitzgerald 💜
I'm pretty sure he's done one on one of his other channels maybe history highlights I swear I've seen a video about that from him
Tj Riddley I would enjoy that as well. I was just a kid when the song about the Edmund Fitzgerald came out. As I got older, I began learning about what happened to it. I really hope that Simon will make a video about that.
@@sassykaren7587 There's a 1000 vid on youtube about that
I agree. In the meantime you can listen to the song!
Look for it
MV Doña Paz is happened in Mindoro strait or it is called tablas strait. I remembered that we avoid eating fish even sqiuds atleast for a year.
You should also do one on the MV Princess of the Stars. Decades apart, different circumstances but still in the same stretch of water.
Also they were both operated by the same company, Sulpicio Lines (nicknamed Suspicious Lines).
You did a very good job delivering the story of this ship, Simon. Several years ago, the History Channel did a piece about it. I’d forgotten just how horrific a tragedy it was. How very, very senseless.
As a Filipino, I glad that there are videos like this. This happened 32 years ago so a lot has changed. Tragedies like this should be remembered so we can improve and not make the same mistakes. Do you think the over loading of the ship was done only one time? Of course not. It has been done for several days and years but it only sank once. Oil tanker without a license is that common in other parts of the world?
I don’t think so , most of Shipping line in country overload its ship especially during peak season.
MV Dona Paz
Deathtoll- 4,386 (some says its more than 5000)
Survivors- 25
Are you on crack?
@@pauloravena1298 its true dude only 25 or 26 survivors
are you on crack? even Titanic can't carry that count of passengers lmao
@@lonelyguy688 well I too doubt it but then again we are talking about Philippines here. Even today buses and other public service vehicles are always full like literally even there's even an couple of inch spaces they'll still accept passengers. This kind of behaviour should be stop at our country its no excuse even its a 3rd world country and theyll say they do it for extra income. Peoples lives are at stake.
@@lonelyguy688 correction it change cause of the pandemic
I love it when Simon is pronouncing Sulpicio in a Italian accent. 😅 Anway, yeah I lived around where the ship sank and we stopped eating fish for a month or so since the we found rings and buttons inside the belly of the fishes that were caught around the area. One of my neighbor was lucky enough to eat a fish that ate a button. Probably that fish ate the bodies of trap victims inside the vessel.
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Lady peace
3:05 - Chapter 2 - Fire in the sea
6:50 - Chapter 3 - The aftermath of tragedy
Besides the Wilhelm Gustloff, there were also the Goya, Steuben and Cap Arcona, all sunk at the end of the Second World War in the Baltic.
The main tragedy of the Dona Paz: that one was avoidable.
He meant; The Worst Maritime Disaster during "Peacetime"
@ not misleading, MV Doña Paz sinking was the worst peacetime maritime disaster, fella
@ sometimes MV Doña Paz sinking was called Asia' Titanic
way back 90s when travelling on land to Visayas, I always see grave crosses on some cliffs and shore lines... I was told that those were erected by families who lost their member(s) on the Dona Paz..
At sea, no one is truly safe. The sea remembers its own.
True. It remembers me too but my time has yet not come.
You could make a disaster channel and expand the Whistler CZcams Empire!
His "alleged" youtube empire
@@belizeanbeast1625 😁😁😁
"Allegedly" Disaster Channel
I would venture to say it is not just hear-say
I can't keep up to how fast this guy creates new channels.
The expression "Charlie Foxtrot" comes to mind.
I remember this only from my Father's Stories. My Grandmother (Father's mother) and one of my Uncle almost got into this ship. Fortunately, they cancelled their trip or got delayed. Forgot the reason.
Thanks for covering this event (I guess). Not really sure why it's on this channel as I don't recall any other video from this one that covers similar tragedies. Perhaps, you should open another channel around disasters and calamities as another has suggested? In any case, I thought this story was handled well. I'm only sad that this had to be the video that puts a spotlight on my country, but then again - negligence is not uncommon here (I'll leave it at that). I'm a big fan of most of your channels, keep it up.
I remembered this tragedy , i was about 6 to 7 yrs old .. my father used to bring to his work place in a boadcast station , and saw the whiteboard on the side the pictures of victims and names of passengers that missing.. it was true that it was over its capacity and so many pssengers wc are not on the manifest ..
I live in a place where many of the victims were from. At a time where many were already on hard times, this was another tragedy that really put a damper on things. A festival where we wear smiling masks was made in order to distract people from the sinking. It worked a lot. The local economy got started again, and the sinking was quickly out of daily gossip. We still hold the festival even today (no festival this year, pandemic and all that).
You should do a video on the Sultana,a Mississippi riverboat. It’s boilers exploded and the ship sank with around 1,200 lost in 1865. It’s the largest maritime disaster in US history.
MV Doña Paz also known as Asia's Titanic
Well, that bummed me out. Thanks, Simon!
U talk about this tragic event in this video.
Cool stuff Mr. Whistler 🤩👍
Had some relatives die in the Doña Paz.
That ship has become a source of countless ghost stories and urban legends.
“The Titanic of Asia”
And it was well deserved to be called as such for the shakedown it made on the passenger ship industry. It's not perfect, but hey, it's safer on the seas now.
I was just thinking yesterday u should do the doña Paz. Thank u
Thank you for this video
Not that Sulpicio lines license to ferry passengers was finally revoked years later after several more accidents. They changed thier name and started only shipping cargo but still got into another accident. :-(
Thanks for featuring this Simon, I'm from Philippines
This is a sad tragedy in the history of the Philippines anyway ever since the Sulpicio line changes it's company name and it's operation from passenger to freight/cargo passenger shipping disasters with big casualties are now rare
I really enjoyed your video, and this terrible tragedy is something I never heard of.
Fact Boi your awesome, love you simon and everyone on your channels
Good video 👍
Yeah I remember when it disaster took place and is even all the more horrible that most of these people burned alive and the death toll was much much higher than the Philippines government was willing to acknowledge. And only gave the people who were on the passenger list which is about 1500 the equivalent of about 300 American dollars in compensation. Although it is said to have been over 4,000 plus on the ship including a whole battalion of Filipino soldiers.
That really sad😢
What do fighting the British for your nation's sovereignty, being one to the top students in the history of Cambridge, taking part in WWI and WW2, being part of the creation of the league of nations and the UN as well as being a close confident of Churchill all have in common? They were all done by Jan Smuts! Please do a video on him!
cool... i had no idea
Well - he's right. I've never heard of it, but overcrowded ferry sinkings in the Philippines is fairly common...
This is the deadliest maritime disaster to occur during peace. The deadliest maritime disaster ever was the Wilhelm Gustloff which took an estimate of 9,600 lives after being struck by torpedoes from a Russian submarine.
It wasn't just tragic. What happened to some of the survivors was horrific.
A very accurate introduction Simon.
Had indeed not heard of this tragedy until it was briefly mentioned, i am sad to say, on another channel.
so I searched it and lo-and-behold.
here I am.
is there a topic u haven't covered on YT? 😂
Sulpicio Lines has many fatalities than their Competitors Which is Whilliam,Gothong,Negros & Aboitiz
Those Craaazy Philippines man what a wild ride that must have been! Where do I sign up for the rush of a lifetime?
Another ship of their company sank at Manila Bay due to sailing their ship amidst of a typhoon warning MV Princess of the Orient
Odd Nukes that got created. The brits created a nuclear land mine that used chickens to keep it warm.
This and the sinking of MV Princess of the Stars were really horrific
+ other Philippine shipping sinking.
Definitely surprised me too.. I appreciate you telling us about this terrible tragedy. Horrible
Simon, the probably deadliest disaster in naval history is not this one here but the sinking of the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff in January of 1945 by a Soviet submarine.
The Wilhelm Gustloff was carrying a crew of 173 (naval armed forces auxiliaries), 918 officers, NCOs, and men of the 2 Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision, 373 female naval auxiliary helpers, 162 wounded soldiers, and 8,956 civilians, for a total of 10,582 passengers and crew.
By one estimate 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
that was WARTIME, this Dona Paz sinking is during PEACETIME
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That doesn’t matter since it’s about naval history in general.
Also it was mostly fleeing women and children who drowned or froze to death in the ice cold water.
While not having nearly as many fatalities (`98), The Yarmouth Castle is another tale of neglect and even cowardice by the Captain. (Like the Edmund Fitzgerald it was the subject of a Gordon Lightfoot song)
The incident wasn’t really Sulpicio Lines’ fault. The most likely explanation is that the Vector apparently had a pretty janky steering setup and the way the ship behaved confused the crew of the Doña Paz into thinking it wouldn’t collide with them
So the fact that more than 4,000 persons were on a ship with room for 600 was an accident?
Honestly, both companies, Sulpicio Lines and Vector Shipping, were at fault. The Vector was unseaworthy and was operating without a license, lookout or qualified master. The Dona Paz was dangerously overcrowded, with over 4,000 people on board, and had a fake radio license.
@@DavidFMayerPhD The fact that 4000 passengers decided to board, many ticketless when the ship was clearly overcrowded somehow is never spoken about. The crew of the Vector, Dona Paz AND passengers were at fault.
I had heard of this disaster before but didn't realize the scale of it or the incredible number of casualties. To think only 26 of 4,600+ survived is just mind-blowing and to think of all those families eagerly awaiting holiday festivities with family and friends having a hole blown out of their hearts when they learned of the fate of their loved ones. When I was 15 I was caught in a gasoline explosion. I was pretty far away but I still got badly burned on the arm that was closest. The pain was absolutely exquisite and went on for over a year. I was lucky, the burn was treatable and I had excellent medical care but it took over 1 1/2 years before I regained full use of the arm. I have been terrified of fire ever since. Today, at 70 y/o, I am still ultra careful around anything that could catch fire.
I’d love to see a sideproject or megaproject video about marine salvage, more specifically Pearl Harbor or the Costa Concordia.
In the United States, we have 7 Maritime Colleges. If you are in the cadet program if must pass a 7 part US Coast Guard test. Fail two parts, you need to retake the entire exams several month later. If you pass , you get your 3rd mate license.
If I go to sea, I would only sail on a US or GB flag vessels as it is well known you can not "buy" you license in either the US or GB.
How do I know????my daughter graduated from State of NY Martime College .
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The deadliest maritime disaster in history is supposed to be the Wilhelm Gustloff, torpedoed in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine in winter of 1945. It is estimated to have been carrying 9,500 German refugees fleeing the advance of the Red Army. Only about one hundred people survived.
Wilhelm Gustloff enters the chat . . . . "Am I a joke to you? Dona Paz are rookie numbers, gotta get those numbers up, son!"
That's what I was thinking
10,000ish died in that one
That was the first thing on my mind
Ah but all 3 of you knew about it. Did you know of the Doña Paz?
Since it was a warship, perhaps they disregarded it? Maybe they should have said ‘commercial maritime’?
@@nicosmind3
Never heard of it
You could do the Québec city bridge! The one that fell twice before getting it right.
P B That would be an excellent topic. The Mohawk of Kahnawake renowned for their skill and agility when it came to high-steel construction were the hardest hit when the Quebec Bridge collapsed. They called it Shontoskwenne, pronounced “soon-doe -SKWONN-nay,” which means “when the bridge fell.” Twenty two Mohawk families lost breadwinners when 33 of the tribe, most in their 20 & 30s were killed in the collapse. No other community was hit as hard as the Mohawk who were left with 25 widows and 53 fatherless children.
I agree that would be a good video.
Or what about the Lac Megantic disaster?
@@bigdmac33 Yes, this, but I think it would need a mega project or to feature on his future disaster channel instead of side project
@@bigdmac33 Great suggestion, That would be a perfect video for Simon to do. And like this video, massive explosion caused by gross negligence.
I happened to board their ships during the mid 2000s travelling to Uni in Cebu to my home province. Its been fine, however one of their ships capsized as well around 2008 in Romblon.
Can you share your lighting setup for your video?
Had never heard of this accident before
A pretty horrible situation, operated by people who should have never been in charge, just as irresponsible as the captain of the Costa Concordia, but much, much worse...
"Allegedly" is Simon's favorite word to use on his channels.
Google is really watching. I was reading a case, Vector v American Home Assurance which was about this collision. Today CZcams recommended this video to me in a different device.
This is the deadliest PEACETIME maritime disaster. There was a ship in ww2 called the MV wilhelm gustloff that was hit by 3 torpedoes and sunk with a loss of 9000 people. Thus making it the deadliest wartime maritime disaster and or the deadliest maritime disaster yet.
I think you should clarify that it is the deathliest peacetime maritine disaster so that some people can actually focus on the lives that was lost there.
Fun Fact: the docked Dona Paz picture was located in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines.
"Don" in Spanish is an honorific akin to "Señor" (Also, equivalent to "Signore"in Italian) but more elevated or respectful. Don and Doña come from the Latin, "Domino" or master (same as "dominate"). I'm guessing that "Sulpicio" was the last name of the founder of that company and "Paz" was his wife's or daughter's first name.
Don Sulpicio Go=founder of Sulpicio lines
Doña=Lady
Paz=peace
Doña Paz=Lady of Peace
@@sheevpalpatine7588 never heard that before
this man is grindin fr
This company has one of the worst maritime records, had more than 3 major shipwrecks in the past 50 years. Claimed more than 10,000 lives yet its still alive
Do a video about the Princess of the stars which is under Sulpicio lines. That sinking was a huge controversy
New York City aqueduct system starting with the Croton Aqueduct that still stands today!!
That would be a great subject to cover.
I made the very same suggestion about a week ago...would for sure be a good topic..!
@@chicomarx213 Simonnnnnnnn! Let's do it mate!
I read an account from one of the salvage divers looking for bodies afterwards. There were really young kids on board, too, just totally shattering