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Enviromental Disaster in Tauranga

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  • 11-10-2011 9:07am
    #1
    pclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭


    This is getting quite serious now. Bad timing with the World cup finals approaching, horrible seeing oil over the lovely beaches. Anyone on boards living up there now?

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/5763630/Rena-worst-maritime-environmental-disaster

    From Stuff.co.nz

    The boat was listing 11 degree to its port side yesterday and had become more stable today, leaning at about three to six degrees, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) said.

    But it has since toppled over to its starboard side, and was this evening on a 15 degree lean. Swells of up to five metres were pounding the ship.

    Fears the ship would break up and its 1368 containers fall in to the sea have been growing as bad weather continues.

    At a press conference today Smith said oil was hemorrhaging from the ship's punctured hull at "fivefold" the rate it was immediately after its grounding.

    "Significantly more oil" was expected to reach the northern end of Papamoa early tomorrow morning, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) said.

    Fifty-three dead birds have been found and 17 have been treated by the National Oiled Wildlife Response team.

    The public is advised not to touch the dead birds and to avoid all contact with oil that has washed ashore as it is highly toxic.

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    Edit. Sorry for title spelling fail.


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