Jerlyn Isah Quisumbing. (Photo courtesy of Jianna Princess Quisumbing / MANILA BULLETIN)
Identified as missing is 24-year-old Jerlyn Isah Quisumbing, who works for the Danish-flagged freighter Santa Clara.
“We are still in positive [spirit] that our child is still alive,” said Richard Quisumbing, Jerlyn’s father.
“But we are also in a hurry that they will find her. Maybe she’s in a hospital somewhere,” Richard told Manila Bulletin in an interview Friday, February 12.
Jerlyn’s mother Rossana said they were told that her daughter fell off the ship in an accident as the vessel was approaching the port of Bremerhaven, a coastal city in northern Germany.