By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay/PNA
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique — Sea travel in Antique is still suspended amid the gale warning by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Service Administration.
Perlita Cinco, Philippine Coast Guard Station Commander for Antique, said they are not yet advising fishermen and other sea passenger vessels to operate because of big waves that could put them at risk.
The Coast Guard advisory, which was issued last Monday, also covered three passengers vessels Argo 2 and 3 and Kalayaan that operate from Libertad to Caluya Mainland and Caluya to Mindoro.
Cinco hoped that by Thursday the sea vessels could already go back to their normal operations should there’s an improvement in weather condition.
Antique Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Broderick Train said that the alert level is now back to white as the situation is back to normal.
The province was placed under blue alert on Monday due to the low pressure area that placed the province within the rain bond.
“We have just lowered down the alert level in the province to white because we are now back to a normal situation. The lowering of the alert to white is based on the Office of Civil Defense guideline,” Train said.
He said that while the province was under a blue alert level last Monday their office had to do pre-disaster risk assessment, establish advance contingency plan and personnel on standby ready for response.
Train said that in spite of the lowering of the alert level the public should not be complacent because there is still a gale warning.
