If your Monday Sucks then it just got worse.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_sc/as_australia_coal_carrier
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_sc/as_australia_coal_carrier
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Great Barrier Reef Oil Spill.
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I and An watched an episode about Life that Discover Channel broadcast and they talked about Great Barrier Reef. It is so beautiful to see it and Now WTF? When is all of these oil spill going to end? is there any international law to penalize these fatal failure that cause catastrophe to eco system?
It's heartbreaking isn't it? I still refuse to buy Exxon products and will do so indefinitely. Unfortunately, it is not as easy to boycott an energy company aside from refusing to buy Cosco stock.
...and then there's this quote from the Austrialian marine biologist below... I guess this is representative of the governing bodies who decided it was unecessary to have oversight of each tanker.
Marine geologist Greg Webb from the Queensland University of Technology said the effects of an oil and coal spill could have unknown consequences.
"In the past we always just thought a reef could put up with anything," he told ABC radio. "And I guess over the last decade or so, we're beginning to understand that maybe they can't."
...and then there's this quote from the Austrialian marine biologist below... I guess this is representative of the governing bodies who decided it was unecessary to have oversight of each tanker.
Marine geologist Greg Webb from the Queensland University of Technology said the effects of an oil and coal spill could have unknown consequences.
"In the past we always just thought a reef could put up with anything," he told ABC radio. "And I guess over the last decade or so, we're beginning to understand that maybe they can't."
9supratt4 said:
i hate to say this but yes it is a disaster but the more insidious disaster is every single neighbor of mine using heavy fertilizer on their lawns to make grass green. Fertilizer is just massive amounts of nitrate and that stuff flows right into the ocean...to spawn gross amounts of algae.
It seems to be the same ol story,"should of" .."could of"....what makes me really angry is the carelessness of other countries,that the whole world has to suffer.Bad enough we have to hear about them killing sharks just for fins,or maybe offering up whale for sushi 
I guess the cycle will continue and the ones that will suffer more is our future generations.Can you hear them talking now.".My grandpa told me when he was young they had huge fish in the ocean,they even had corals on somethin called a reef..."
I guess the cycle will continue and the ones that will suffer more is our future generations.Can you hear them talking now.".My grandpa told me when he was young they had huge fish in the ocean,they even had corals on somethin called a reef..."
The only word i can think of when i see this stuff is sickening. Why dont they make these ships impenetrable already? Especially the ones traveling in the danger zones like reefs and stuff. Make it a double or triple layer and an extra thick skin on the hull, put a huge 24" thick rubber bladder in them or somethin. Oh wait it might cost them a few million. Big deal all they have to do is raise their fuel prices prob 2 cents a gallon for a day. Like I said. Sickening
That ship was not even supposed to be near the reef. The captain had cut across a restricted zone in order to save time.
panmanmatt said:
Sickening! That moron really thought nobody would notice a tanker ship in a restricted zone? Not like they're big or anything. Its a restricted zone for a reason. Where i snorkeled in mexico, we were around 150 yards off the coast and the reef was only about 3-4' from the water surface. Who would ever think that? one would think it should easily be 20-50' deep there but its not
ah,but maybe its a "sneak thru if no one sees zone",its a big ocean and Im sure alot goes on that would blow our minds...or I could be completely wrong..lol
SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian authorities refloated a huge Chinese ship on Monday that had been stranded on the Great Barrier Reef for over a week after running aground, averting a potential environmental crisis.
Emergency workers successfully moved the 230-metre (750-foot) Shen Neng 1 coal carrier without adding to the two-tonne oil spill that spread a three-kilometre (two-mile) slick after the ship crashed on April 3.
The general manager of Marine Safety Queensland, Patrick Quirk, confirmed that no more oil had been lost and said the ship was being towed to an area east of Great Keppel Island, Australian news agency AAP reported.
"The refloat was a success. Salvors spent an hour-and-a-half assessing the vessel's stability and watching for any evidence of further oil spills," he said.
"Our intention has always been to keep oil loss to a minimum so we could take it to safe anchorage."
Emergency workers had pumped most of the 970 tonnes of heavy fuel oil from the vessel before they were forced to rush the after-dark refloating due to approaching stormy weather and high seas.
Once the ship has been safely anchored, divers will inspect its hull so that a decision can be made on its future movement, Quirk said.
Emergency workers successfully moved the 230-metre (750-foot) Shen Neng 1 coal carrier without adding to the two-tonne oil spill that spread a three-kilometre (two-mile) slick after the ship crashed on April 3.
The general manager of Marine Safety Queensland, Patrick Quirk, confirmed that no more oil had been lost and said the ship was being towed to an area east of Great Keppel Island, Australian news agency AAP reported.
"The refloat was a success. Salvors spent an hour-and-a-half assessing the vessel's stability and watching for any evidence of further oil spills," he said.
"Our intention has always been to keep oil loss to a minimum so we could take it to safe anchorage."
Emergency workers had pumped most of the 970 tonnes of heavy fuel oil from the vessel before they were forced to rush the after-dark refloating due to approaching stormy weather and high seas.
Once the ship has been safely anchored, divers will inspect its hull so that a decision can be made on its future movement, Quirk said.
