Search & rescue operations for Sec. Jesse Robredo & pilots: on sonar & prayers

       Search & rescue operations for DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo & pilots: on sonar & prayers

       News peg: “… (T)he sonar craft deployed in the crash site detected an object less than a kilometer off the Masbate island, an interview over radio dzBB revealed. “ (Yahoo Philippines at ph.yahoo.com)

       According to Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas, the designated spokesperson, the sonar craft can detect objects on a “look-down” basis without “sideways” vision.  In other words, it has a straight, vertical view downwards. This probably means it can “see” an area downwards, vertically,  the size of the sonar craft .  In other words, it doesn’t have  a wide-angle- lens- view; yet miraculously, it has been able to detect a metal object that is part of the aircraft a kilometer off the coast.     

     The area that is being scoured, according to Roxas, is about a 6-kilometer radius between Masbate City and Ticao island, as of press time. I don’t know if that area has been narrowed down.  

    How big is the sonar craft and how big is the size of the view? (because it doesn’t have any other kind of sight but straight, vertical). Here  it is (below, video):

 

(Video produced and uploaded by RTVMalacanang used here non-commercially for review purposes).

      The sonar craft is  probably about 5 meters X 2 meters. Or a 5 meter X 2 meter view,  downwards, straight, vertical. You’d want to cover every square meter.

     how fast can it produce images onscreen? Maybe ten seconds per image? Can you fact-check me.  On a 5 meter x 2 meter view. To cover a 6,000-meter-radius.  How many hours and days. Maybe the area can be divided up into priority sites.  i didn’t give you my computation because… the search and rescue is multi-pronged, in different directions, mobilizing hundreds and hundreds,  deploying dozens of sea craft, aircraft, vessels, and the prayers of thousands.   

Edited out: Usec Puno to Pres. Noynoy 2pm hostage crisis “matulog na kayo…” (“go to sleep already”)

Edited out: Usec Puno to

President Noynoy

2pm hostage crisis “matulog

na kayo…

(“go to sleep already”)


That portion was aired in the

first news broadcast, but

“edited out” (suppresed) in

the latter broadcasts, so i

googled it, it is retained in

some online news

organizations such as Yahoo

News Philippines at

www.ph.news.yahoo.com in

its news story:

DILG usec: Aquino wanted to

talk directly

to hostage-taker – Yahoo


The question is: Why was it

suppressed (censored) in

the succedding broadcasts of

the mainstream, giant media

organizations? Here it is,

the portion of the interview

that was suppressed:

DILG Undersecretary Rico

Puno (the President’s

provincemate and gun-

enthusiast buddy) who was

given unofficially (not in

writing) by President Noynoy

the power to supervise the

police, depriving DILG

Secretary Jesse Robredo

of such function, said in an

interview yesterday (from

Yahoo News Philippines,

click link given above):

quote “ “Naisip niya

(tinutukoy dito ang

Presidente tala ng blog

admin) as early as 2 p.m., ‘Ano

kaya kung pumunta na ako

diyan at sabihin ko (sa

hostage-taker) na marami ka

nang naiistorbong tao at

maraming mawawala sa

atin?‘,” [“He (the President

-blog admin’s note) thought as

early as 2pm (of the hostage

crisis – blog admin’s note),

‘What if i go there and tell

the hostage-taker that he is

disrupting the lives of many

people and we would be in

the losing end?’ he said in an

exclusive interview with GMA

News’ Jun Veneracion

aired over “24 Oras.”


Quote (from Yahoo Phil)

““Syempre, sabi namin na

ganoon, ‘Mr. President, hindi

kasama na protocol yan’ ,” he

said.

quote (from Yahoo Phil) “(Of

course, we told him, ‘Mr.

President, that’s not part of

our protocols.’)


quote (from Yahoo Phil) Puno

even advised Aquino not to

worry about the incident,

which they thought would end

peacefully.


Quote “ “Nung naghiwalay

kami, sinabi namin: ‘Matulog

na kayo [Aquino] at

gigisingin namin kayo kapag

tapos na ito’,” he said.


quote (from Yahoo

Phil)”(Before we adjourned,

we told him: ‘Get some sleep

and we’ll wake you up when

this is over.)


Quote “The 11-hour hostage

drama, however, ended with

nine people killed— the

hostage-taker and eight Hong

Kong tourists. (See: Hostage

crisis ends in bloody carnage;

8 hostages dead)”

closed-quote.

xxx

And…you think i forgot , don’t

you? And the lucky color of

the day according to the

morning show astrologer

is…off-white.

It’s eeaasy, eeaasy,

eeeaassiee, as A… B… C…