One of the two fishermen from Pandan who went missing for two days before being rescued last week died of too much sea water in his lungs, disaster management officials said.
Noriel Cantar, 54, expired at the Pandan district hospital hours after he was admitted due to dehydration and other symptoms.
Last Feb. 23, fishermen from Marambong, sighted the elder Cantar, along with his son Jenelle, 17, clinging to a piece of the bamboo outrigger from their wreckage of their motorized banca.
The reports from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Catanduanes Chapter’s Pandan satellite office and the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office did not state what time and where the two fishermen from sitio Ipil in barangay Balangonan were found.
They were immediately brought by their rescuers to Marambong, where responding personnel administered first aid to the survivors before they were brought to the Pandan district hospital for treatment.
Earlier, the Pandan MDRRMO reported that the two men left their coastal village at 3 AM of Feb. 20, 2023 bound for a “payaw” or a bouy in the Philippine Rise part of the Pacific Ocean.
However, the two, who were on board an orange-white and red motorized banca with two engines, failed to return as expected at 5 PM of Feb. 21.
PAGASA records show that Catanduanes has been under a gale warning since Feb. 15 and on the day the Cantars left Balangonan, the weather agency had warned of wind gusts of 45 to 68 kilometers per hour as well as rough to very rough seas ranging from 2.8 to 5 meters high.
Reports said that the two fishermen were submerged in the rough sea for about 46 hours, with Noriel presumed to have ingested a considerable amount of sea water.
With seawater four times as salty as human bodily fluids, the body is forced to urinate more water.
With no fresh water to replace the lost fluid, the body begins to dehydrate leading to muscle cramps, thirst, increased heart rate, constricted blood vessels, nausea, weakness, and eventually organ failure that results in death.
The C One of the two fishermen from Pandan who went missing for two days before being rescued last week died of too much sea water in his lungs, disaster management officials said.
Noriel Cantar, 54, expired at the Pandan district hospital hours after he was admitted due to dehydration and other symptoms.
Last Feb. 23, fishermen from Marambong, sighted the elder Cantar, along with his son Jenelle, 17, clinging to a piece of the bamboo outrigger from their wreckage of their motorized banca.
The reports from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Catanduanes Chapter’s Pandan satellite office and the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office did not state what time and where the two fishermen from sitio Ipil in barangay Balangonan were found.
They were immediately brought by their rescuers to Marambong, where responding personnel administered first aid to the survivors before they were brought to the Pandan district hospital for treatment.
Earlier, the Pandan MDRRMO reported that the two men left their coastal village at 3 AM of Feb. 20, 2023 bound for a “payaw” or a bouy in the Philippine Rise part of the Pacific Ocean.
However, the two, who were on board an orange-white and red motorized banca with two engines, failed to return as expected at 5 PM of Feb. 21.
PAGASA records show that Catanduanes has been under a gale warning since Feb. 15 and on the day the Cantars left Balangonan, the weather agency had warned of wind gusts of 45 to 68 kilometers per hour as well as rough to very rough seas ranging from 2.8 to 5 meters high.
Reports said that the two fishermen were submerged in the rough sea for about 46 hours, with Noriel presumed to have ingested a considerable amount of sea water.
With seawater four times as salty as human bodily fluids, the body is forced to urinate more water.
With no fresh water to replace the lost fluid, the body begins to dehydrate leading to muscle cramps, thirst, increased heart rate, constricted blood vessels, nausea, weakness, and eventually organ failure that results in death.
The Cantars’ ordeal is the latest to befall marginal fishermen in the northern town, with brothers Alfredo Alnaiz, 35, and Noli, 33, both of San Roque, going missing on Jan. 25 when they failed to return from a fishing trip.
The brothers had left the barangay on board their motorized banca in the morning of Jan. 24, despite a PAGASA advisory warning of gale-force winds and rough seas with wave heights of 4.5 meters.
Their waterlogged banca, as well as their clothes and rotting fish, were found off Lipata, Caramoan, Camarines Sur four days later but with no sign of the brothers.