Maybe because of Stormieweather.

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Well, that is actually true, the efforts to pump out the fuel oil have been hampered by 5 metre swells.
Also ... look at those containers! How can they get them off? It's a precision job with a huge-ass land-based crane even when the ship of upright next to a dock in nice still water with the containers properly upright. Refloating is probably impossible because of the structural damage to the ship, she'll probably break up. It is a grade one SNAFU. The ship is FUBAR.

by The Associated Press
NPR
1/8/12
Grounded Cargo Ship Splits On New Zealand Reef
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You reckon they still enforce that no smoking rule?

I'm pretty sure they got all of the fuel oil off that ship. i'd be surprised if an oil spill was the major concern for those in the know. I suspect they'll be more concerned about multiple submerged containers getting into the shipping lanes and causing problems.

Shipping containers often float, right? Okay, for a time. Depending.

I'm not sure what was in these sacks from a split open container from this ship. At first I thought concrete, but surely they would sink. Even wheat flour is pretty heavy in a sack. What is light and fluffy, but doesn't form a scum on the surface of the water and instead sinks and mixes with the water?
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COCAINE!

how about lactose ? for coke dilution ?

That looks to me like it's bubbling. Maybe bi carb soda or some other chemical that'd react with salt water.

Gawd, I'm getting slow:

That's so funny Zen. We first saw that one a couple of years ago. We still crack jokes about it, like when we see some dickhead on a jetski hit the mudflats - he's beached as bro. We'd ask him if he wanted a chup bro, but maybe he only eats plenktun? lol

Thut shup is beached uz, bro.