CAMP PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Ilocos Sur, Philippines – Nine fishermen earlier reported missing in the high seas during the onslaught of tropical depression “Dodong” turned up alive in the shores of Pangasinan and Ilocos Sur over the weekend, authorities reported.

Senior Superintendent Reynante G. Partible, acting director of the Ilocos Sur Police Provincial Office (PPO), identified the nine survivors as Gabriel V. Vesta, 29, of Barangay Arosan, Bolinao, Pangasinan; Rosalino M. Perges Jr., 28; and Joel L. Murcia, 32, both of Barangay Bayambang, Infanta, Pangasinan;

Gregorio M. Santillan, 52; Jovani M. Murcia, 22; Marwin T. Ladao, 19; Philip M. Murcia, 20; and Felix C. Relator, 51, all of of Barangay Cato, Infanta, Pangasinan; and Nestor M. Lapis, 36, of Barangay Poblacion, Infanta, Pangasinan.

Partible said that Vesta was rescued in the high seas while clinging on to a piece of wood on Sunday morning after being spotted by fisherman Ismael Artillero, of Barangay Puro, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur.

The other eight were rescued around 2 p.m. Sunday by brothers Eleno, 41, and Bartolome Tabigne, 46, who were fishing in the high seas off Magsingal, Ilocos Sur.

The Tabigne brothers were on their way home from fishing on high seas on board a motorized banca when they sighted said fishermen floating using the parts of their destroyed banca,” Partible said.

They were taken back to Pangasinan after being treated at the Magsingal District Hospital in Ilocos Sur, added Partible.

The survivors revealed that they set out to sea to fish on the night of June 7, 2011 when their motorized banca was hit big waves and wrecked to pieces on the night of June 9, 2011.