Subic Bay Freeport Zone – Page 28

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The former US Subic Bay Naval Base became the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Nov. 1992

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Zf632. This is an April 2006 images and I’m sad that this view is not possible anymore. It was nice beaches, beautiful lagoons, nice shady trees and friendly people. This is the quarry at Agusuhin Point. It is the ridgeline that divides the Agusuhin and Quinabucsan River Valleys. The Hanjin shipyard extended far into that […]

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Zf631. This is an April 2008 image, the ridgeline splitting the Agusuhin Valley was burned and friends and I took advantage of that and made a hike all the way up to the watershed boundary. We can see that Hanjin made a lot of progress in 2 years and the west north dry-dock is finished. […]

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Zf630. This is an April 2006 image of the Agusuhin River Valley, looking up-river or up-valley. One can clearly see, it is fed by two rivers, from left and right, divided by a ridgeline splitting this valley. We see earth moving equipment preparing the site for the Hanjin Shipyard.

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Zf629. This is a Google Earth image of the Agusuhin River Valley in 2006, the Malampayan Platform has left and the people are still able to live there.

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Zf628. The Malampayan Gas Field Platform is being built in the Agusuhin River Valley about 1999. They dug a hole in the ground and built the platform there. When finished, a channel will be dug to float the platform out. This picture was posted by Mark Smith in the Facebook Group: Barrio Barretto and Baloy […]

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Zf627. This is the start of constructing the Malampayan Gas Field Platform in the Agusuhin River Valley about 1999. They dug a hole in the ground and built the platform there. When finished, a channel will be dug to float the platform out.

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Zf626. This is a cropped section of the San Antonio 1:50000 size map and it shows you most of the geographic places mentioned in this story.

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Zf625. The Agusuhin River Valley was an Olongapo Naval Reservation Training Area, called Green Beach by the USMC. Local people lived her in a community called Sitio Agusuhin, part of Barangay Cawag in the Subic Municipality. The Marines and local people had a good relationship. This is an about 1989 US Marine Corps image. One […]

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Zf630. This is 2021 April 11 image of the Hanjin Shipyard, nothing was going on. On March 9 2022 news papers reported that the U.S Equity Firm Cerberus bought the place. The Manila Bulletin reported this, that the Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced Wednesday, March 9, that there will be no […]

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Zf638. This is an Aug. 2006 image, Sitio Agusuhin is being moved. It was the rainy season; it did not look very good. Even today, Agusuhin can never be compared with the place it was.