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CEBU, Philippines-Rescuers scoured the rough seas around a capsized ferry in the central Philippines on Monday in a desperate search for more than 800 people still missing after it sank two days ago in a deadly typhoon.Coast guard boats searched the area around the 23,824-gross-tonne ferry and divers were expected to drill into the side of the vessel where they hope survivors might be alive in air pockets.Typhoon Fengshen, with maximum gusts of 195 kph (120 mph), has killed at least 159 people in central and southern Philippines, with the western Visayas region, famed for its sandy beaches and sugar plantations, the worst affected.It pounded the archipelago, damaging thousands of houses, rice stores and displacing tens of thousands of people."We got hit real bad this time," said Richard Gordon, the chairman of the Philippines' Red Cross.The typhoon is currently over the South China Sea and is expected to move northwards towards Taiwan in the next few days according to storm tracker website: http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/.Twenty-eight passengers and crew were the most recently found survivors of the ferry disaster, having landed at a small coastal village after drifting for more than 24 hours in a rubber boat, radio dzBB reported.Two others originally on the life raft drowned in large swells.
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