The Philippine Coast Guard said on Tuesday that authorities will push through with the search and rescue operations for seven fishermen who went missing after their boat collided with a cargo vessel off the waters of Palawan over the weekend.
In an interview, Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Armand Balilo said they have doubled the coverage of the search area and deployed BRP Cape Bojeador to augment the vessels involved in the operation.
“We deployed additional boats to help us search for the fishermen. As of now, we haven’t see any signs of the whereabouts of the missing fishermen yet”, he said.
“We increased the scope of our search, we doubled it. We won’t stop until the commander terminates it,” Balilo added.
He said the PCG is working side by side with units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for the search. They covered 92 square miles in the search on Monday.