Another tragedy again happened in our country..its the sunking ship of MV Princess in the waters of Romblon. It is approximately has 700passengers and crews in that ship. There was a great typhoon but the ship still continue to sailed. The said ferry can hold 2000people flipped over a mile off the shore of Sibuyan Island.
After that incident, Del Monte Co. warned the Philippines Government that the vessel was carrying a 10,000 kilos (10tons) toxic pesticide for pineapple in Mindanao plantation. Vice President Nole De Castro has ordered suspension and big possibility of its license revocation due to malpractice by carrying a toxic in a vesssel. The divers who dived into the vessel was given immediate medical check up due to toxic.
According to health secretary Franciso Duque: "ENDOSULFAN IS A RESTRICTED PESTICIDE FOR USE IN PINEAPPLE PLANTATION. AT TOXIC LEVELS, IT CAN CAUSE DEATH OR AFFECT CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MANIFESTING AS HEADACHES, DIZZINESS, NAUSEA, TREMORS. EXPERTS SAID THERE IS NO ANTIDOTE FOR THIS POISON YET THERE IS A TREAMENT. VICTIMES MUST UNDERGO INDUCED VOMITING TO EXPEL THE CHEMICAL FROM THEIR BODIES"
Fortunately, the divers who took medical check up showed no signs of infection of toxic.
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