This week we discuss an incident considered to be the deadliest peacetime disaster at sea in history - the sinking of the ferry Doña Pazoff 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 Pazis covered on p. 40 of the PDF
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