Cargo ship grounded off New Zealand

BigV · 10-13-2011, 09:17 PM

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!

Aliantha · 10-13-2011, 09:25 PM

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!

Lamplighter · 10-13-2011, 09:35 PM

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

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ZenGum · 10-13-2011, 10:55 PM

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.

gvidas · 10-15-2011, 02:43 PM

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/

Lamplighter · 10-15-2011, 02:54 PM

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

footfootfoot · 10-15-2011, 03:24 PM

Well, the curfew didn't work...

Aliantha · 10-15-2011, 06:10 PM

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

richlevy · 10-15-2011, 07:27 PM

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

ZenGum · 10-15-2011, 08:08 PM

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

BigV · 11-02-2011, 03:44 PM

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

footfootfoot · 11-02-2011, 03:56 PM

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.

wolf · 11-02-2011, 03:58 PM

For the win.

ZenGum · 11-02-2011, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

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.

Stormieweather · 11-03-2011, 09:35 AM

Why aren't they unloading it?

10-13-2011, 09:25 PM	#2
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	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! __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-13-2011, 09:35 PM	#3
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	OK Jim, I want you to go up there and tie off that top box... . Attached Images

10-13-2011, 10:55 PM	#4
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	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. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-15-2011, 03:24 PM	#7
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Well, the curfew didn't work... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-15-2011, 06:10 PM	#8
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Amazing photos, but we've seen it all before haven't we? __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-15-2011, 02:43 PM	#5
gvidas Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 286	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/

10-15-2011, 02:54 PM	#6
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Neat link... exellent photography... several different sub-stories

10-15-2011, 07:27 PM	#9
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	The requirements to register a ship in Liberia are only slightly less stringent then registering a handgun in Alabama. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

10-15-2011, 08:08 PM	#10
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Once again, multinational corporations get to play governments off against each other. Grrr. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-02-2011, 03:44 PM	#11
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	What is the new news on this accident folks? Please? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-02-2011, 03:56 PM	#12
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-02-2011, 03:58 PM	#13
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	For the win. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-03-2011, 09:35 AM	#15
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	Why aren't they unloading it? __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

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