Editing MV Doña Paz (section)

===Rescue===
Officers and the captain of a passing inter-island ship, [[MV Don Claudio|MV ''Don Claudio'']], witnessed the explosion of the two ships and, after an hour, found the survivors of ''Doña Paz''. The officers of ''Don Claudio'' threw a net for the survivors to climb onto. Only 26 survivors were retrieved from the water: 24 of them were passengers from ''Doña Paz'', while the other two were crewmen from ''Vector''{{'}}s 13-man crew.<ref name="pdi2"/><ref name="sc2">{{cite court|litigants=Vector Shipping Corp. v. Macasa|court=[[Supreme Court of the Philippines]]|date=July 21, 2008|url=http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2008/july2008/160219.htm}}</ref> A four-year-old boy was found drifting in the sea in the immediate days after the collision, but there were conflicting reports on whether he was an actual survivor or not from the ''Doña Paz''.<ref name="news.google.com">''Nevada Daily Mail'', [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19871222&id=oTcrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WdUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1416,6885509&hl=en "4-year-old survivor found floating in sea"]</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Robles|first1=Higino|last2=Soriano|first2=A.F.|last3=De Jesus|first3=S.|title=121 more bodies found near collision site; survivors, nil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rGcVAAAAIBAJ|access-date=May 18, 2025|work=[[Manila Standard]]|publisher=Standard Publications, Inc.|date=December 24, 1987}}</ref>

A 25th survivor from ''Doña Paz'', Valeriana Duma, was not originally accounted for by officials. She revealed herself later by the [[GMA Network]] program ''[[Wish Ko Lang!]]'' in 2012. At 14, she was the youngest passenger of ''Doña Paz'' to survive.<ref name="Duma">{{cite news|title=MV Dona Paz survivor reunites with family after 25 years on 'Wish Ko Lang'|url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/publicaffairs/wishkolang/259876/mv-dona-paz-survivor-reunites-with-family-after-25-years-on-wish-ko-lang/story/|access-date=February 10, 2020|work=GMA News|publisher=GMA Network|date=May 12, 2012|quote=Valeriana [Duma] survived using a life jacket given by her employer, but her survival was never recorded by the authorities. If it had been, she would have been the youngest of the few survivors.}}</ref>

None of the crew of ''Doña Paz'' survived. Most of the survivors sustained burns from jumping into the flaming waters.<ref name="nyt1"/> Doctors and nurses aboard the rescue vessel tended to their injuries. It reportedly took eight hours before Philippine maritime authorities learned of the accident, and another eight hours to initiate [[search-and-rescue]] operations.<ref name="dnv"/>