The biggest ship collision ever recorded at sea is the 1987 catastrophe, involving a Philippine passenger ferry, Dona Paz and the oil tanker MT Vector, in the Tablas Strait, near Manila, Philippines.
On the night of December 20, 1987, MV DonaPaz was sailing from Tacloban, Leyte, to Manila with thousands of passengers, surpassing its capacity since it was the Christmas season.
Of all the people onboard both vessels, just 26 lived, 24 from the Dona Paz ferry and 2 from...
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