Qualla: 2019 Reed Bank Incident https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: 2019 Reed Bank Incident https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident 2019 Reed Bank Incident: Introduction https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident/ Twenty-two Filipino fishermen were asleep when the impact came. In the early morning hours of 9 June 2019, the F/B Gem-Ver -- a 19-meter wooden-hulled banca anchored near Reed Bank in the South China Sea -- was struck by the Yuemaobinyu 42212, a 44-meter steel-hulled Chinese fishing vessel. The wooden boat sank. The steel ship sailed away, leaving the crew in the dark water. It would take hours before anyone came to help, and the rescuers would not be Filipino or Chinese. They would be Vietnamese.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/d/5/1/2019-reed-bank-incident-wp/wd51-2019-reed-bank-incident-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 2019 Reed Bank Incident: Wooden Hull Against Steel https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident/ The F/B Gem-Ver had sailed from San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, on 29 May 2019 with a crew of twenty-two under Captain Junel Insigne. Their destination was Reed Bank, a submerged seamount within what a 2016 international arbitration ruling had affirmed as the Philippines' exclusive...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/d/5/1/2019-reed-bank-incident-wp/wd51-2019-reed-bank-incident-wooden-hull-against-steel.mp3 0:06 2 full 2019 Reed Bank Incident: Two Hours of Paddling https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident/ The crew of the Gem-Ver found themselves in the water in the middle of the night, over a hundred nautical miles from the nearest Philippine shore. Two crewmen managed to paddle to a Vietnamese fishing vessel, the TGTG-90983-TS, which had sailed from Tien Giang Province in the Mek...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/d/5/1/2019-reed-bank-incident-wp/wd51-2019-reed-bank-incident-two-hours-of-paddling.mp3 0:06 3 full 2019 Reed Bank Incident: A Story That Changed Three Times https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident/ China's first response, on 13 June, was to call the sinking an "ordinary maritime accident." The next day, the Chinese Embassy in Manila posted a statement on Facebook claiming the Yuemaobinyu 42212 had been "suddenly besieged by 7 or 8 Filipino fishing boats" and that its lightn...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/d/5/1/2019-reed-bank-incident-wp/wd51-2019-reed-bank-incident-a-story-that-changed-three-times.mp3 0:06 4 full 2019 Reed Bank Incident: The Silence and the Outcry https://qualla.com/2019-reed-bank-incident/ Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana condemned the sinking on 12 June -- Philippine Independence Day -- calling the abandonment of twenty-two men at sea "cowardly." Philippine Navy chief Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad went further, stating that the ramming was "not an acci...

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