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Cargo ship grounded off New Zealand

I've been hearing progressively scarier reports of this event. What's it like locally I wonder?

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Oct 14 (Reuters) - Salvage experts were preparing on Friday to pump more oil off a stricken container ship off the New Zealand coast as businesses started to count the cost of the country's worst environmental disaster in decades.

The Liberian-flagged Rena has been stuck for nine days on a reef 14 miles (22 km) off Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, spilling about 300 tonnes of heavy toxic fuel and some of its hundreds of containers into the sea.

Splits down the middle of the hull of the 236-metre (775-foot) ship have raised fears it will break apart spilling hundreds more tonnes of oil.

Salvage teams were back on board the 47,230-tonne ship preparing to cut holes in the stern to get to the tanks holding about 1,000 tonnes of fuel.

"It's complex, it's hard, it's difficult and they will start pumping as soon as they can," Maritime NZ spokesman Bruce Anderson told reporters.

Shit!

I don't know what's wrong with captains of ships around Australia and NZ. It's really starting to piss me off personally.

We have friends that live in that area and fish off that reef and now it's being destroyed.

They must have got their licences out of cornflake packets!

OK Jim, I want you to go up there and tie off that top box...

:eek:

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I can't remember the details, but that ship was "detained" before leaving port in Australia, and then again in New Zealand, for poor maintenance/ safety issues.

Owners skip on maintenance, skippers try short cuts, shit happens. Thus it has ever been.

Tragedy makes some beautiful photographs. Interesting to compare with the BP oil spill last year, a much trickier catastrophe to convey in a single image.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...reline/100169/

Neat link... exellent photography... several different sub-stories

Well, the curfew didn't work...

Amazing photos, but we've seen it all before haven't we?

The requirements to register a ship in Liberia are only slightly less stringent then registering a handgun in Alabama.

Once again, multinational corporations get to play governments off against each other. Grrr.

What is the new news on this accident folks? Please?

The cargo ship is now allowed to have friends over after school and can make and receive phone calls before 5:30pm. It still cannot go to the mall or hang out after soccer practice and must complete all its homework before it can watch South Park.

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 769590)

What is the new news on this accident folks? Please?

Recent story here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-0...eak-up/3614678

It's still there, but only just:

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Officials in New Zealand are warning a stricken container ship in the Bay of Plenty could break up.

The Rena ran aground last month, spilling more than 350 tonnes of oil into the sea, damaging the coast and killing wildlife in the pristine region.

Swells of up to five metres are expected to cause more damage to the ship's hull, which buckled further overnight.

The Bay of Plenty is (was) one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand. :(

Why aren't they unloading it?