14. MV Dona Paz
Current Estimated Value: $3,500* (Money Restitution to Victims)
Date of Disappearance: 1987
Discovered Year: N/A
Decades have passed since the MV Dona Paz capsized. Five days before Christmas, this ship smashed into a nearby tanker, burned, and sank into the Philippine Sea. The Dona Paz catastrophe has tarnished the marine legacy of the Philippines and is still the deadliest shipping incident in history.
The MV Dona Paz ©lindsaybridge, via Wikipedia
Twenty-four years before it sank, on April 25, 1963, the Japanese-built ferry was finally launched. What the survivors of the Dona Paz disaster should have been awarded was hotly contested years later; in the end, the reparations amounted to only a few thousand dollars.
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