Safety devices, a must for all watercrafts
OPERATORS of watercrafts that convey passengers are now obliged to be equipped with life-saving devices, particularly life vests.
PO1 Valeriano Bueno, detachment commander of the Philippine Coast Guard based at Bonuan Gueset, said they had intensified their campaign for compliance with the requirement to ensure the safety of passengers of any watercraft.
He said that it is now compulsory for motor boats to be equipped with these devices to ensure not only the safety of the operators but the passengers as well.
As directed by his headquarters, he said, he will deploy teams to inspect and monitor the daily operations of the motorized banca operators to make certain that the life- saving devices are in place before departing from their ports of origin to their destinations.
Bueno appealed to operators of passenger motorized bancas to cooperate and not begrudge his office for his strict enforcement.
He assured the operators that the new requirement will be imposed on all uniformly. – APE
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