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http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/07/world/south-china-sea-dispute/index.html
Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the South China Sea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the Sierra Madre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships.
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"I estimate there are five to six hundred rats and a million cockroaches."
— Hilbert Bigania, Philippines marine