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When the Sea Caught Fire: Inside the Doña Paz's 4,385 Deaths
When the Sea Caught Fire: Inside the Doña Paz's 4,385 Deaths
The ocean itself became an inferno on the night of December 20, 1987: more than 4,000 people burned in open water after a passenger ferry and an unseaworthy tanker collided, and only 25 survived. How did a ship certified for 608 end up carrying thousands unlisted, and why did the world not know for eight hours?
In this episode, we recount the sequence of events, the vessels involved, the passenger discrepancies, and the immediate aftermath as survivors and investigators faced a disaster unlike any in maritime history. What did the…
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