A news and information service for Filipino seafarers sponsored by the All Japan Seamen's Union, International Mariners Management Association of Japan and Philippine-Japan Manning Consultative Council, Inc.
MANILA, Philippines, April 7 ------ A Chinese research boat was spotted operating illegally in the Philippines’ eastern waters, particularly in the potentially oil- and gas-rich Philippine (Benham) Rise. Sealight, an independent maritime monitoring group headed by former US Air Force official and defense attaché Ray Powell, monitored the activities of Tan Suo Er Hao in Benham Rise and in the vicinity of Batanes within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). “China’s d