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Ship captain admits ill-fated RORO vessel overloaded


Minutes before it left Quezon province, the ill-fated roll-on-roll-off (RORO) vessel MV Blue Water Princess took in additional last-minute passengers. This was the admission Wednesday of the RORO vessel's captain Virgilio Retardo, who testified before a Special Board of Marine Inquiry looking into the July 12 incident. Radio dzBB reported that Retardo could not explain why the number of passengers rescued from the water far exceeded the reported manifest of 28 passengers and crew. But he admitted many last-minute passengers boarded the craft, and that he could not control them. Investigators were also expected to ask Retardo during the hearing how the crew tied the "rolling cargo" in the ship. The rolling of the cargo inside the ship when it ran aground had been blamed for the ship's losing its balance and sinking. - GMANews.TV

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