00:00Authorities are now investigating the crash of a ship of the China Coast Guard
00:06based on a tracker in San Felipe, Zambales, even though it's not there.
00:11According to the Philippine Coast Guard, this is a possible case of spoofing.
00:16Joseph Moro was on the scene.
00:21To remind the residents of San Felipe, Zambales,
00:24the crash of the first ship of the China Coast Guard
00:27that has a body number 21543, on the morning of December 10.
00:31It came out of an AIS tracker used by the residents
00:35to monitor the dredging activities in the area.
00:38According to the tracker, there are four other ships in the area.
00:41The residents of the Philippine Coast Guard in Zambales reported this.
00:45And the Philippine Coast Guard checked again
00:47the location of the said ship of the China Coast Guard.
00:50We have located the vessel of concern,
00:52but it is near Hong Kong, in Guangzhou.
00:56So it could not have been in that particular location.
01:00I would suggest, unless someone in the area
01:03had a visual sighting of the vessel, it's a glitch.
01:07BRP Teresa Magbanwa and her responder were in the area at that time.
01:13BRP Teresa Magbanwa also saw the signal from the CCG 21543.
01:19But when they arrived at the place,
01:20they saw three ships with a Philippine flag, but they were owned by a Chinese company.
01:25The PCG inspected one of the ships that was undocked,
01:29and they did not see any irregularities.
01:32These are Chinese-operated dredgers.
01:36And according to the report of the commanding officer,
01:41BRP Teresa Magbanwa,
01:43some of the crew are Filipino, some of them are also Chinese nationals.
01:47There is a possibility that these dredgers
01:50that are being used in Manila Bay,
01:53were also being contacted by the Chinese Coast Guard
01:57to do AIS spoofing for them.
01:59Probably to create panic in the public,
02:04also to deceive the authorities.
02:08In fact, in the tracking distributed by the PCG around the world,
02:12the CCG 21543 is only operating within a short period of time.
02:17This is a violation of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.
02:21We are still trying to get the permission of the Chinese Embassy for this.
02:25So it is time to investigate the activities of the dredger ships.
02:29Like what Senator Rizal Tiveros called,
02:32he is worried that these are also being used to spy on the country.
02:36The Philippine Coast Guard has the authority to board
02:39and inspect all these dredger vessels.
02:42Especially so that AIS is actually one of the requirements.
02:47As part of the SOLAS Convention.
02:50Meanwhile, in front of the United Nations General Assembly,
02:53the Philippines denied that the territory of the Philippines
02:56of the Scarborough Shoal or Bahot Imasinlok in Sambales
02:59is also a part of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
03:03Philippine Ambassador to the UN Antonio Lagdameo also said
03:06that the new laws of the Philippine Maritime Zones Act
03:09and Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act
03:11are strengthening the sovereignty of the Philippines in our ocean.
03:15China released a baseline that includes Bahot Imasinlok
03:18as a violation of UNCLOS and a violation of the International Order.
03:23For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong,
03:26for Tutok 24 Horas.
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