Thursday, January 17, 2013

Philippines: U.S. Navy Ship Stuck On Coral Reef


"It had just completed a port call in Subic Bay, a former American naval base west of the Philippine capital, when it hit the reef Thursday in the Tubbataha National Marine Park, a World Heritage Site in the Sulu Sea, 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Manila."



Subic Bay is north of Manila not 640 kilometers south of it.



If the ship stranded on a coral reef in the Sulu Sea it is likely providing security for Exxon-Mobile's oil drilling there. The Sulu Sea is nowhere near Subic Bay.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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