Re: Random maritime accidents.
What is so annoying is that all this hype is about the fuel oil on board.
Oil is an organic substance, not poison that kill all life in the sea for miles around and for years to come. In fact is is food for the lowest forms of life in the sea, which in turn is food for the next level.
With the danger of repeating myself, natural venting of oil into the seas has happened for thousands of year and far exceed what is on board any ship, even a VLCC, every year.
During the Iran-Iraq War more crude oil leaked into the relatively enclosed Arabian Gulf then what was spewed out of the Macondo well in GOM. What is the environmental result today, 20 years later? Nothing.
This ship is a Container ship with over 6000 Containers on board. If she is allowed to sink many of these containers will float up and be a danger to small ships.
Because she is likely to sink far from shore the containers will eventually hit beaches over a large area and in some inaccessible places, clearing up that mess will be enormous.
Who knows what is in some of these containers? It is not likely to be all from Toys'R'us. Some may contain substances far more dangerous to the environment than the Fuel Oil on board. (Not all Shippers give a honest declaration of content)
If you think I feels strongly about this subject, you are right. As a sometime Salvage Master in the passed, I am glad I don't do that kind of jobs anymore. I could NOT accept being treated as a kindergarten kid by some bureaucrat with no Maritime knowledge. When things goes wrong they will blame the professionals, not themselves.
What is so annoying is that all this hype is about the fuel oil on board.
Oil is an organic substance, not poison that kill all life in the sea for miles around and for years to come. In fact is is food for the lowest forms of life in the sea, which in turn is food for the next level.
With the danger of repeating myself, natural venting of oil into the seas has happened for thousands of year and far exceed what is on board any ship, even a VLCC, every year.
During the Iran-Iraq War more crude oil leaked into the relatively enclosed Arabian Gulf then what was spewed out of the Macondo well in GOM. What is the environmental result today, 20 years later? Nothing.
This ship is a Container ship with over 6000 Containers on board. If she is allowed to sink many of these containers will float up and be a danger to small ships.
Because she is likely to sink far from shore the containers will eventually hit beaches over a large area and in some inaccessible places, clearing up that mess will be enormous.
Who knows what is in some of these containers? It is not likely to be all from Toys'R'us. Some may contain substances far more dangerous to the environment than the Fuel Oil on board. (Not all Shippers give a honest declaration of content)
If you think I feels strongly about this subject, you are right. As a sometime Salvage Master in the passed, I am glad I don't do that kind of jobs anymore. I could NOT accept being treated as a kindergarten kid by some bureaucrat with no Maritime knowledge. When things goes wrong they will blame the professionals, not themselves.
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