Updates page 5.
January 26 2000.
We continue to receive info from Divers who are both concerned and enraged at the Killing of Mr Sartirani and the way the story has been kept so quiet.
What our investigations have given us so far is starting to unveil itself as less of an accident and more of a calculated Murder in the "guise" of an accident!
We continue to receive many details about this story and publishing only confirmed reports, we have outlined the incident on a seperate page entitled;
DIVER KILLED BY DYNAMITE!
(click to read)
February 2 2000.
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February 20 2000.
Daytime dynamite fishing in the IMMEDIATE area surrounding Dalupiri Island has STOPPED!
It has now been some 3 weeks since the last reported daytime explosions and we have waited until now to update this page in order to confirm this report.
This is a terrific victory for our campaign but before we all start celebrating we must keep up the pressure in order to also stop the Night blasting.
Blasting continues in most other areas of the Strait which means that the dynamite suppliers of Burabod continue to produce blasting materials for use in those areas.
February 21 2000.
We have been contacted by a representative of the Dept of Tourism in Manila and await a statement of cooperation which will be published on these pages.
February 25 2000.
Marine Associates sailing south from the Capul Pass report hearing blasts somewhere between that position and Mainland Samar at about 21.00 hrs this evening.
March 2 2000.
Today Congressman Abayon went to Dalupiri Island and spent the entire night with the Islands Vice Mayor, Mr R Collamar.
March 3 2000.
Associated Mariners report seeing Two dead dolphins among a large area of flotsam at a point midway between Dalupiri Island and Capul Island and Mainland Luzon.
These enormous almost island-like patches of flotsum occur during windy weather of either S.E Monsoon winds, or the strong N.E.Amihan winds off the Pacific, which is the present weather.
Unfortunately the majority of this flotsum is household plastic and other waste originating from areas around the N.W part of Northern Samar and dispersing to the Visayan islands.
It is unlikely that the dolphins died in the area they were seen, and also unlikely that were in someway killed by an incident connected to the island of garbage, it's more likely that they died or were killed somewhere between there and on a line heading eastwards and ending outside the San Bernadino Strait in the Pacific at the end of the main tidal current, which is found at a point 3 to 4 nautical miles north of the Capital town of Catarman.
Our Calculations were based on information of local weather patterns, tides and currents and concluded that the dolphins were killed, or died, at a point somewhere between the Towns of Rosario and Bobon on the Northern Samar coast. It's difficult to be more precise because the local weather during the month of February has been irregular. (possibly due to the recent Mayon Volcano erruption.)
Nor can we be more precise on the time of death which is estimate to have occurred between Feb 25 and 29.