Officials in Manila have said that their initial findings suggest that the coast guard acted in self-defence and that fishing boat tried to ram into the coastguard vessel.
Kyle Abel, a 24-year-old who drives a boat for the Coast Guard, delivered water bottles to those who opted to stay in their homes, despite the water creeping up their front porches.
The crash site has been blocked to recreational boat traffic while the agency investigates, the Coast Guard official said.
Last fall relations between Beijing and Tokyo reached their worst point in years after Japan detained the Chinese captain of a fishing boat that had collided with Japanese Coast Guard vessels in a disputed stretch of the East China Sea.
"We did have a Coast Guard helicopter crew fly for 60 miles up the shoreline there to see if they could spot any environmental impact and they weren't able to find anything, " he said, adding a Coast Guard boat surveying 15 miles south of the site also detected nothing.
They allege the men, who were on board an Italian commercial vessel to guard against Somali pirates, opened fire on the fishing boat.
In September 2010, Japan held a Chinese trawler captain after his boat collided with Japanese coast guard ships near the isles.
The men, who were on board an Italian commercial vessel to guard against pirates, are accused of opening fire on the fishing boat.
SABA, citing sources in Yemen's Coast Guard, said seven other fishermen escaped on a small boat prior to the pirates' taking control of the fishing boats.
The same scenario played out Tuesday, when the Coast Guard cutter Pea Island's crew interdicted 12 Cuban migrants they'd found on a boat south of Key West, Florida.
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