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Great Barrier Reef Oil Spill.
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This is starting to look like that game you played when you were a kid.....The ship hit the reef Booooooooo, they got the ship off yeaaaaaaaaaaa! The ships paint scarped off and killed the reef boooooooooooooo. The latest
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/1...g-instant-death-to-great-barrier-reef/?hpt=C2
Bob
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/1...g-instant-death-to-great-barrier-reef/?hpt=C2
Bob
Apparently this wasn't entirely unexpected...if they have two ships within a day of each other going thru this area, that could mean there are over 300 in a year plowing thru here and it just so happened this ONE ran into the reef...good grief...
Australia's AAP news agency said it had seen a radar image of another bulk carrier using the same short-cut just a day later, indicating the illicit route was commonly used.
"It just illustrates how often that channel is being used and also having a ship run aground was no deterrent," an industry source was quoted as saying.
"They saw the ship aground there and they still pushed through, that's the thing that astounds me."
Officials have promised to investigate alleged short-cuts through the reef, which is the world's biggest and counted as one of its greatest environmental treasures.
Three crew from another ship faced magistrates last week, charged with taking an illegal route through a different part of the reef, which stretches along 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles) of northeastern coast.
Conservationists say the incidents highlight the environmental risks of Australia's booming resources exports to Asia, which are fuelling a strong recovery from the global financial crisis.
Australia's AAP news agency said it had seen a radar image of another bulk carrier using the same short-cut just a day later, indicating the illicit route was commonly used.
"It just illustrates how often that channel is being used and also having a ship run aground was no deterrent," an industry source was quoted as saying.
"They saw the ship aground there and they still pushed through, that's the thing that astounds me."
Officials have promised to investigate alleged short-cuts through the reef, which is the world's biggest and counted as one of its greatest environmental treasures.
Three crew from another ship faced magistrates last week, charged with taking an illegal route through a different part of the reef, which stretches along 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles) of northeastern coast.
Conservationists say the incidents highlight the environmental risks of Australia's booming resources exports to Asia, which are fuelling a strong recovery from the global financial crisis.
This is just horrible, so sad....