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Asia's Titanic

The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage and photos and a re-enactment of the collision, dissect the unfolding tragedy of Doña Paz.

Top Cast

  • Joonee Gamboa

    Joonee Gamboa

    Narrator

  • Salvador Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

    Salvador Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

    Salvador - self

  • Aludía Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

    Aludía Bacsal (Doña Paz survivor)

    Aludía - self

  • Luthgardo Niedo (Dona Paz survivor)

    Luthgardo Niedo (Dona Paz survivor)

    Luthgardo - self

  • Pedro Sorema (Dona Paz survivor)

    Pedro Sorema (Dona Paz survivor)

    Sorema - self

  • Morris Apura (Doña Paz survivor)

    Morris Apura (Doña Paz survivor)

    Apura - self

  • Almario Balanay (Dona Paz survivor)

    Almario Balanay (Dona Paz survivor)

    Balanay - self

  • Generoso Batola (Doña Paz survivor)

    Generoso Batola (Doña Paz survivor)

    Batola - self

  • Arthur Lim (Counsel of Sulpicio Lines)

    Arthur Lim (Counsel of Sulpicio Lines)

    Lim - self - archived footage

Overview

The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage and photos and a re-enactment of the collision, dissect the unfolding tragedy of Doña Paz.

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  • TheRethinkerCurator
    TheRethinkerCurator
    9 Jun 15, 2024

    Great Documentary. However, I can’t help but feel that this is one of the most horrific, devastating, and tragic of peacetime maritime tragedies to have occurred surpassing the RMS TITANIC. The MV DONA PAZ tragedy had taken the lives along with those of the oil tanker MT Vector: 4,386 dead, and 27 survived. I won’t ever forget that night recorded: December 20, 1987. RIP.

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