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John Unson - Philstar.com
January 17, 2026 | 6:11pm
All 30 passengers and crewmen of the distressed M/L Nurdia rescued by Navy personnel on Friday night, January 16, 2026, are now in the custody of the local government unit of Taganak in Tawi-Tawi, a component-province of the Bangsamoro region.
Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Navy personnel on Friday night, January 16, rescued 30 Filipino seafarers in a distressed boat spotted 46 miles off the Taganak island town in Tawi-Tawi in the Bangsamoro region, close to Sabah, Malaysia.
Officials of the Western Mindanao Naval Command and the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Police Office separately told reporters on Saturday that the boat was spotted by Navy personnel aboard the BRP Juan Magluyan drifting in the eastern side of the territorial sea of Taganak, its sailing rudder broken.
Navy officials based in Tawi-Tawi, said all of the 30 people in the M/L Nurdia, among them a pregnant woman and five children, were immediately transported by the BRP Juan Magluyan crewmen to the Taganak Seaport and turned over to the Taganak Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.
Local executives immediately provided the rescued boat passengers with food and drinking water, the Taganak local government unit and the Taganak Municipal Police Station reported early Saturday to the regional capitol of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in Cotabato City.
The boat that was supposed to ferry them to one island town in Tawi-Tawi had also been towed safely to a beachfront area in Taganak, according to local executives.
