Sea accidents are common in the archipelago because of tropical storms, badly maintained boats and weak enforcement of safety regulations.
Search-and-rescue groups, supported by six government boats and three airplane, have combed a 20-nautical-mile (37-kilometer) radius of Manila Bay since Thursday, but the ferry has yet to be established, the head of the Philippine seaboard area guard said.
Three bodies and 46 survivors were retrieved hours after MV Catalyn B, a wooden-hulled ferry with 73 persons on board, collided with the 369-ton angling vessel Anathalia before dawn Thursday beside the mouth of Manila Bay. No added bodies have been discovered since.
Coast guard agents state numerous passengers were sleeping and had no time to get life vests on and numerous of the missing may have been tricked inside.
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