MV PRINCESS OF THE ORIENT DISCOVERY
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Frank Doyle, part of the Sea Scan Survey team found the Princess Of The Orient ship wreck in 2000.
On September 18, 1998, the 13,935-ton, 195.1-metre (640 ft) long MV Princess Of The Orient, sailed from Manila to Cebu during a typhoon.
The ship capsized at 12:55 p.m. near Fortune Island in Batangas and sank, and out of the 388 passengers on board, 150 were killed.
Passengers were floating at sea for more than 12 hours before rescuers were able to reach the survivors.
After locating the wreck lying on her port side in 127m of water Frank and his team have supplied the means, gases and support to put a few selected
technical divers on the site.
The first team to dive the Princess in 2003 was John Bennett and Ron Loss.
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