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                    [Summary] => WASHINGTON — "Our father in heaven, I beg you please let me live. My three children are too young to be without me. My wife needs me. I need them," Raynaldo Tagle of Nasugbu, Batangas, prayed as he bobbed in the cold Atlantic Ocean clinging to a floating log after his ship sank.


The Greek-owned, Singapore-registered tanker Bow Mariner with a crew of 27 — three Greeks and 24 Filipinos — exploded and sank in the early evening of Feb. 28, off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, some 240 miles south of Washington, DC. 


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Rino, as friends call him, was a second engineer at the Greek-owned, Singapore-registered tanker Bow Mariner that exploded and sank in the waters off the coast of Virginia, USA last Feb. 27. 


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The tanker exploded while carrying 13.3 million liters of ethanol. Three crewmen were reported dead.


"Our first and foremost concern will be finding the 18 people that are missing," coast guard spokeswoman Krys Hannum said.


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Pinoy seamen recount ordeal

By Jose Katigbak | March 25, 2004 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — "Our father in heaven, I beg you please let me live. My three children are too young to be without me. My wife needs me. I need them," Raynaldo Tagle of Nasugbu, Batangas, prayed as he...

Headlines

Remains of Filipino seaman to arrive soon

By Jerry Botial | March 15, 2004 - 12:00am

After working overseas as a seaman for over 20 years, Celerino Batugo Pitpit, 53, of 150 Marulas St., Caloocan City, will be coming home soon. But not to the usual rejoicing of his family that has characterized...

Metro

6 Pinoys rescued from sunken ship off US coast

March 2, 2004 - 12:00am

PORTSMOUTH, Virginia — Six of 24 Filipino seamen serving aboard the ill-fated MT Bow Mariner were rescued by the United States coast guard from the frigid Atlantic Sunday as rescuers searched for 18 of the tanker’s...

Headlines