This week we discuss an incident considered to be the deadliest peacetime disaster at sea in history - the sinking of the ferry Doña Paz off the Philippine island of Mindoro in 1987.

Source material:

Asia's Titanic - Thousands Died Thirty Years Ago (Maritime Executive) 

Dona Paz victims waiting for justice 25 years after - Joey A. Gabieta, Inquirer Visayas
- survivor accounts and quotations 

Supreme Court case, 1999

Sulpicio gone; owners change name - Irene R. Sino Cruz, Inquirer Visayas

Evacuation descriptions of various types of ferries and cruise ships via Det Norske Veritas
- Doña Paz is covered on p. 40 of the PDF

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