MV ''Danica Joy'' was a

passenger ferry A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi ...

owned and operated by

Aleson Shipping Lines Aleson Shipping Lines, Inc. is a shipping company based in Zamboanga, Philippines. Their services include routes to Sandakan, Malaysia and over Dapitan City to Dumaguete City. They also ship cargo from Zamboanga City to Manila with twelve of their ...

. She served the BIMP-EAGA Route of

Zamboanga City Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga (Chavacano and es, Ciudad de Zamboanga, Tausug language, Tausūg: ''Dāira sin Sambuangan'', fil, Lungsod ng Zamboanga, ceb, Dakbayan sa Zamboanga), is a city in the Zamboanga Peninsula region ...

Sandakan Sandakan (, Jawi: , ) formerly known at various times as Elopura, is the capital of the Sandakan District in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the second largest city in Sabah after Kota Kinabalu. It is located on the Sandakan Peninsula and east coast of ...

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

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Career

MV ''Danica Joy'' was a passenger ship of

that serves the BIMP-EAGA Route of

, Sabah, Malaysia. Originally, her namesake is MV ''Danica Joy 2'' as per records given from Maritime Industry Authority, and through Maritime Connector as she's the successor to MV ''Danica Joy 1'' whose route is from

Dapitan Dapitan, officially the City of Dapitan ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Dapitan; Subanon: ''Gembagel G'benwa Dapitan/Bagbenwa Dapitan cbk, Ciudad de Dapitan''), is a 3rd class component city in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to ...

Dumaguete Dumaguete, officially the City of Dumaguete ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Dumaguete; fil, Lungsod ng Dumaguete), is a 3rd income class component city and the capital of the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a p ...

''.'' However, her hull was painted as "MV ''Danica Joy''". Thus, she got the name "MV ''Danica Joy''" and her predecessor was named into "MV ''Danica Joy 1''". On her maiden voyage to the said route, she was called as the "Hepe De Viaje" (

Chavacano Chavacano or Chabacano is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers. ...

term for "Chief of the Cruise") as she spearheaded the

route. In 1998, she was alongside MV ''Lady Mary Joy 2'' in servicing the route up until MV ''Lady Mary Joy 2'''s retirement in 2006. Since then, she was the only ferry that servicing the said route. Other shipping lines tried to compete over Aleson for the said route like

Weesam Express SRN Fast Seacrafts, Inc. which operates the Weesam Express ferry line, is a company based and founded in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The company was founded and headed by Hadji Ahmad W. Sakaluran as President and Hadji Wahab A. Amil his nephew in ...

, but it did not last long. In 2015, MV ''Danica'' ''Joy'' was the only ship to serve that route.

Fate

September 22, 2016 when, MV ''Danica'' Joy arrived to Zamboanga International Seaport by 4 p.m. coming from Sandakan. After all passengers had already disembarked, the ship listed on its starboard side and capsized by around 9:30 PM, resulting in no casualties. The Philippine Coast Guard cited cargo mishandling caused the ferry to capsize. Commodore Pablo Gonzales Jr., PCG district commander for Southwestern Mindanao, said initial investigation showed no other safety issue on the ''Danica Joy''. The Coast Guard has called up the management of the MV ''Danica Joy'' to shed light on the mishap and pinned the responsibility on the chief mate, being the cargo officer. The ship's cargo, mostly shopping goods cargo consisting of cooking oil, noodles and other food items capsized along with the ferry.

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