Members of the Philippine Coast Guard attempt to recover the remains of the capsized boat MBCA Kim-Nirvana during a search and rescue operations near a port in Ormoc city, central Philippines July 2, 2015. (Alan Kristofer Motus/Reuters) Just before noon on Thursday, a motorized outrigger canoe carrying 189 people set off from Ormoc City, a town in the Philippines’ Leyte Province.