Olietanker? T'is een containerschip...quote:Op dinsdag 11 oktober 2011 12:53 schreef aloa het volgende:
Olielek Nieuw-Zeeland loopt uit de hand: "Grootste milieuramp ooit in het land"
Zware schip dreigt door storm in twee te breken
Het olielek voor de Nieuw-Zeelandse kust is uit de hand aan het lopen. De regering van het land spreekt over de grootste milieuramp in de geschiedenis van Nieuw-Zeeland. Een zware olietanker kwam er vast te zitten en het goedje bedreigt de dieren die in de buurt leven.
De hoeveelheid olie die uit de tanker Rena lekt is intussen vertienvoudigd. Door een nieuwe scheur in één van de tanks kwam er 130 tot 350 ton verse olie in het water terecht. En dan blijft er nog 1.600 ton olie aan boord van het schip. Hevige wind en golven zijn de oorzaak van de nieuwe breuk. De laatste bemanningsleden werden geëvacueerd.
Nu bestaat er angst dat het grote schip in twee zou breken. Dat zou een ware catastrofe kunnen betekenen. Het schip telt 1.368 containers en zeker 22 containers bevatten gevaarlijke producten. Gisteren is de olie ook al op de stranden beginnen aanspoelen. Bewoners krijgen de raad uit de buurt van de kustlijn te blijven.
De opruiming zal nog maanden duren. Eerst moet de olie zelf verwijderd worden, daarna zijn de containers aan de beurt. Pas nadien kan het schip weggesleept worden. Ook over de toestand van het schip zijn er twijfels. Zo zouden inspecteurs in China de bemanning gewezen hebben op problemen, maar vorige maand kregen ze toch toelating om uit te varen. De Griekse eigenaars van het schip zeggen nauw samen te werken met de overheid om de omvang van de ramp te beperken. (gb)
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Volgens mij gaat het om dikke stookolie. En het zal wel degelijk een ramp zijn, heb je enig idee welke natuurgebieden daar liggen? Doei delen van ladingen pinguins, tig zeevogelsoorten, tig dolfijnsoorten, honderden vissoorten, tig robben/zeehonden soorten etc. Het probleem is dat veel van die soorten alleen op NZL voorkomen.quote:Op woensdag 12 oktober 2011 21:51 schreef Truffelvarken het volgende:
Het is ongetwijfeld een ramp, maar die ramp wordt volgens mij opgeklopt door de media.
Dat containerschip is geen olietanker. Dus heeft het maar een beperkte voorraad voornamelijk stookolie voor de motoren aan boord. Een binnenvaart olietankertje kan 1000 ton laden.
Deze olie is lichte dieselolie en die verdampt of wordt op den duur afgebroken.
Er is 350 ton weggelekt. Als voorbeeld. Een beetje gemeenthuis van een kleinere gemeente had vroeger 3 olietanks van 70 ton in de grond.
De ramp bestaat uit een stuk of 8 tankwagens. Nou laten we zeggen hooguit 10.
Men spreekt van een grote ramp, het is dikke troep die nu al veel stranden in de BOP besmeurd heeft, met de daarbij behorende gevolgen voor de natuur. Hoe het zit met zware metalen ed weet ik niet..quote:Op donderdag 13 oktober 2011 09:23 schreef cynicus het volgende:
Stookolie is vaak vieze troep idd, vol zware metalen en (organische) gifstoffen. Maar de ene stookolie is de andere niet, het zou ook (hopelijk!) vrij schone stookolie kunnen betreffen.
quote:TAURANGA, New Zealand—Several beaches on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island were closed to the public from Thursday and operations at the Port of Tauranga will be suspended overnight, after oil and containers from a damaged cargo vessel washed ashore, with concerns that things might get worse as salvage efforts remain fraught with danger.
http://online.wsj.com/art(...)627992558519116.html
quote:Rena: A lifetime of memories goes missing
Precious videos and photos of milestones in their children's lives are what Tauranga couple Craig and Wendy Fellows most want rescued from Rena.
The couple, who moved back from Sydney last month, have no idea where on the 236-metre ship the container holding their car, furniture and a lifetime of memories is stored, or whether it is in the ocean.
"It's pretty bloody hard, actually. It's frustrating. We're going through highs and lows. We've got to be optimistic. It may still be on the boat."
The removal company involved had approached Costamere, which owns the Rena, but was told no information about the containers was being released.
Mr Fellows said he thought the company could have at least provided an 0800 number or website where those with belongings aboard Rena could get regular updates.
"It's very frustrating being kept out of the loop," he said.
After being away for 10 years, the 41-year-old and his wife Wendy had returned to the Western Bay on September 14 after Mrs Fellows was made redundant from her job as a lingerie designer and offered a role with Mt Maunganui company HOTmilk.
They had each brought a large suitcase containing enough clothes to last a few weeks and their children, Grace, 6, and Cooper, 5, selected some treasured toys.
"Luckily I grabbed a couple of mementos and the kids grabbed a couple of toys each," Mr Fellows said.
Also packed in the container was the family's back-up hard drive containing photos and home videos and the negatives from their wedding - "all the irreplaceable things in life".
They had paid $2100 for insurance on the container, which covered only market value replacement of items less than seven years old.
"We were expecting breakages at first, but not a total loss," Mr Fellows said.
- BAY OF PLENTY TIMES
By Michele McPherson of the Bay of Plenty Times
quote:Rena crew quit NZ for their 'safety'
Filipino authorities are rushing to send home most of the crew of the stricken container ship Rena amid concerns for their safety and public anger towards the Filipino community.
Yesterday, 11 crew members were put on flights to the Philippines, leaving only six in Tauranga, including the captain and navigational officer, who are facing court charges over the ship's disastrous grounding.
Members of the Tauranga Filipino community say they are feeling the wrath of locals outraged by the disaster, and the Philippines' representative in New Zealand is worried about the growing anti-Filipino sentiments.
Shipping agent Mike Hodgin, who has been helping the crew since they evacuated their ship after it ran aground, said the Philippine Embassy was helping to send them home.
"Only six are left. We cannot say where they are, to protect their safety," Mr Hodgin said yesterday.
As the crew left New Zealand, the managing director of the Greek shipping company Costamare - which owns the Rena - apologised to the people of Tauranga and New Zealand over the environmental disaster.
"We want to say that we are deeply sorry for the situation that has arisen and the threat you are now facing from fuel oil from the vessel washing up on the beaches in your beautiful part of the world," Diamantis Manos said in a video, reading off an autocue.
"It is our ship that went aground and we apologise without hesitation for what has happened."
But Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby believed the video apology was not good enough and said: "I think the chief executive should come here to our city."
From the air yesterday, debris from the Rena could be seen strewn across the Bay of Plenty as tug boats tried to corral containers that had tumbled from the vessel.
Fuel oil from the ship has created a slick that appeared to be spreading in clumps over the bay.
The heavy black toxic oil is washing ashore, despoiling holiday beaches and killing wildlife.
Filipinos feel local wrath
Filipinos in the Bay of Plenty say that since it was revealed that crew on the Rena were from the Philippines, they have felt the wrath of the public.
"People are passing remarks like, 'They must be relatives of yours'. You know it's not a joke because you can feel the negative vibes," said Daisy Pascuade Groot, a business owner in Mt Maunganui.
"People should understand that one man's fault shouldn't be seen as everyone's fault."
Ms Pascuade Groot said even hotels she contacted trying to find where the crew members were staying, so she could offer assistance, hung up on her.
Another Filipina, who did not wish to be named, said she sensed a "growing anti-Filipino feeling" in the Bay of Plenty.
"One cyclist asked if I was Filipino, and when I said yes, he just gave me the finger and cycled off," she said.
Anger over the toll of wildlife caught in the oil spill from the Rena is also being directed against Filipinos.
"The Rena crew has murdered thousands of our native wildlife, and the community still want to help them? Unbelievable," said Kim Armstrong, a visitor from Britain whose sister lives in Tauranga.
Philippines Embassy minister and consul Giovanni Palec, who is in Tauranga to assist the remaining crew members, said he was worried about the growing anti-Filipino sentiments.
"The incident is an environmental disaster that has caused an uproar, but people should understand that no one had wanted it to happen," he said.
"We are concerned that it has given rise to negative perceptions on some Filipinos living here."
Mr Palec said he would be meeting local Filipinos to discuss the matter and reassure them.
Yesterday, he met crew members and their Costamare-provided lawyers, but would not comment on what they had discussed.
Asked what he was told about what the crew had been doing before the grounding, Mr Palec said it was inappropriate to comment as this was now a subject of investigation.
He confirmed that more than half of the crew had been put on flights home.
"Those who have been determined to have no role in the grounding of Rena have been repatriated," he said.
"Only six remain behind, and they are assisting with the investigations."
The captain and navigational officer have been granted name suppression, and Mr Palec said the rest of the crew had also been granted "address suppression".
No offer of compensation from ship owners
A spokesman for Costamare said there were "no plans in the works" for anyone from the company to come to New Zealand.
Mr Manos said he wanted to assure those affected by "these events" that the owners and managers of the Rena took their responsibilities seriously. No offer of payment was made.
"We recognise that in due course, liability for what has happened will be determined in accordance with the relevant laws and international conventions," he said.
Under the Maritime Transport Act the civil liability to the ship's insurers is capped.
Legal commentators say the maximum sum is $14 million, and Prime Minister John Key has put the clean-up costs so far at $12.1 million.
The ship is insured for US$4.2 billion for a single event, with a sub-limit of about US$S1 billion for a pollution event.
Costamare is one of the world's leading owners and providers of container ships for charter and last year made more than $443 million in profit.
quote:Berging Rena stilgelegd vanwege storm
Door stormdreiging zijn de bergingswerkzaamheden van de Rena stilgelegd. Voor de kust van Nieuw-Zeeland, waar het containerschip begin oktober op een rif vastliep, worden de komende uren golven van 5 meter hoog voorspeld.
De berging werd gisteren gestaakt, toen golven van 3 meter hoog op het beschadigde schip inbeukten. De Rena maakt zwaar slagzij en de romp is langs beide kanten gescheurd.
Breken
Er wordt gevreesd dat het schip in tweeën breekt. Als dat gebeurt, kan 385 ton olie in zee stromen. Dat is iets meer dan er de afgelopen maand al uit het schip is gelekt. Een groot deel daarvan spoelde aan op de stranden bij Tauranga, in het noorden van Nieuw-Zeeland.
De bergers die gisteren geëvacueerd werden, konden de afgelopen dagen 1100 ton olie uit het schip pompen. Voor hun evacuatie brachten ze dichtingen aan op de olietanks en extra sensoren om tijdens de storm bewegingen van het schip te kunnen volgen.
De Rena vervoerde 1368 containers. Daarvan zijn er al 88 overboord geslagen. Doordat het schip sterk overhelt, wordt gevreesd dat er de komende uren nog meer in zee kunnen vallen.
quote:Maritime New Zealand says heavy fuel oil is continuing to be removed from the submerged tank on the grounded container ship Rena.
Salvage unit manager Arthur Jobard said salvors have kept up continuous pumping of the oil from the Rena to the tanker Awanuia today.
The vessel ran aground on the Astrolobe reef off the Bay of Plenty coast on October 5, setting off a gruelling operation.
By 6am today, around 116 tonnes of oil had been removed from the 358 tonnes in the starboard tank and MNZ says the flow rate has held steady all day at about four tonnes an hour.
Jobard said around a third of the heavy fuel oil has been taken from the tank thanks to an extra pump on the line.
The team is using a hot tapping technique - a method of extracting oil from the submerged tank without allowing the oil in the tank to leak out.
And he said salvors have also been removing the last remnants of lubricating oil, along with emptying the storage tanks.
The team hopes to start sucking out the final bits of heavy fuel oil from the bottom of number 5 port fuel oil tank tomorrow.
The weather forecast for the next few days is good for salvage operations, with only minimal swells and light winds. The clear weather is forecast to remain until Wednesday.
Assistant on-scene commander, Scott Read, said beach clean-up events will continue at the weekend. On Saturday clean-up crews will be at Papamoa, Matakana Island and Maketu and on Sunday at Matakana Island and Papamoa.
A total of 904 tonnes of oily waste has so far been collected by the clean-up crews.
Jobard said once all the oil has been pumped off the ship, then, weather permitting, container removal from Rena will begin.
Bedoelen ze daar niet onweersbuien mee. Op zee lijkt het niet stormachtig te worden.quote:Op vrijdag 11 november 2011 09:57 schreef JeMoeder het volgende:
Raar dat daar wordt gezegd dat het weer rustig zal zijn, lees hier:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz(...)=1&objectid=10765295
... dat het een stormachtige periode wordt.
http://www.metservice.com/national/warnings/marine-warningsquote:Op vrijdag 11 november 2011 10:51 schreef aloa het volgende:
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Bedoelen ze daar niet onweersbuien mee. Op zee lijkt het niet stormachtig te worden.
quote:Salvors working on the stricken cargo vessel Rena have made the most of good weather conditions and have managed to remove 31 containers this week.
The operation to remove the containers started on Wednesday, six weeks after the ship fist ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay Of Plenty.
Salvage teams concentrated on removing virtually all of the oil from the Rena before beginning the difficult task of removing more than 1200 cargo containers left onboard.
"Weather is one of the major players in this operation," MNZ Salvage Unit Manager Kenny Crawford said.
"Salvors are constantly monitoring weather conditions and container removal had to stop this afternoon as winds exceeded 24 knots."
Crawford said salvors will continue to make the most of the good weather while they can, but the job of releasing the containers is expected to take several months.
Meanwhile the nautical exclusion zone around the vessel has been reduced to three miles as the risk from an oil spill or containers coming loose has reduced.
Defence Force heads home
New Zealand Defence Force personnel have returned to their bases after helping with the Rena oil spill.
Hundreds of Defence Force personnel have been involved in cleaning up Bay of Plenty beaches since the Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef off the Tauranga coast on October 5.
More than 922 tonnes of oil has been removed to date.
Maritime New Zealand Operations Manager Scott Read said the Defence Force had done a brilliant job in the clean up effort.
"From Mount Maunganui to Papamoa, Rabbit Island, Leisure Island and Matakana Island, Defence Force teams have been working tirelessly to clean-up the beaches," he said.
"We've had around 487 personnel involved since the response began and we're extremely grateful for their energy and ability to get the job done."
Commander Joint Task Force Lieutenant Commander Muzz Kennett said troops returned to their respective bases and homes yesterday.
However, 50 personnel will remain on standby ready to respond within 24 hours should further assistance be required, Kennett said.
He said troops have removed around 8.5 tonnes of oily waste in the last 10 days alone.
Warrant Officer Steve McCutcheon of the Royal New Zealand Air Force described the work as "messy hard work that just needs to be done", but said the public response had been really positive.
"Even if people don't stop, they yell out thank you. We've had a lot of support from local companies and the community.
People have donated trailers and Mount Maunganui camping ground offered parking, he said.
Iwi liaison officer Mike Borell said feedback from Matakana Island was positive with people saying that that troops have been a pleasure to work with.
"They formed good relationships with the whanau of Matakana Island right from the start," he said.
The Defence Force also deployed ships and aircraft to the area and a team of specialists from the Navy Littoral Warfare Support Group helped to clear and maintain shipping channels.
Naval assets supplied imagery and information on RENA's condition and Seasprite and Iroquois helicopters supported with aerial observation flights, transport of salvage experts to and from RENA, and night Search and Rescue Response standby.
http://tvnz.co.nz/nationa(...)iner-removal-4548606
quote:Weather is making difficult the salvage of containers from the grounded ship Rena.
The removal of containers paused this afternoon due to high winds- they exceeded 24 knots.
MNZ Salvage Unit Manager Kenny Crawford said a total of 31 containers had now been removed. However, the removal of containers had paused this afternoon due to high winds.
“It is important to bear in mind that conditions onshore can be vastly different to conditions at sea and salvors will continue to make the most of good weather as it comes along.:
A number of factors affect container salvage operations. These include the height, direction and period of swell as well as the wind speed and sea state.
“Long, slow, deep swells can cause particular concern for salvors as any movement below is amplified at the top of the crane,” Mr Crawford said.
RENA: Two more containers are lifted off | MNZ
Meanwhile, in consultation with the appropriate authorities, the Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s harbourmaster has amended the exclusion zone off the Bayof Plenty coast, with MNZ’s support.
From midnight tonight, the exclusion zone will be reduced to three nautical miles around the cargo ship Rena.
National On Scene Commander Mick Courtnell also reminded beach-goers to take care over the weekend.
“It’s important people remember that the beaches are not the same as they were before Rena grounded. There is still residual oil in the sand and in the water, and people should take care.
“Access restrictions remain in place at Maketū Spit and for about 3km east ofHarrison’s Cut past the Pāpāmoa Surf Lifesaving Club to Alexandra Place.
http://www.aktnz.co.nz/20(...)rena-lift-difficult/
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