Spraying over oil spill.
 

Just saw the news article about the Chinese ship grounded and leaking oil. There was footage of what looks like an 802 spraying. Anyone know what it is they are spraying?

Just curious....

Oil dispersant ?

the same stuff those big jets spray from way up high so we all forget about the UFOs we saw?

Yes, oil dispersant.

Admittedly it's been a few years since I did it but the dispersants then were great for crude but ineffective against heavy fuel oil which is probably what this ship is leaking. That said I'm not sure what 60K ton of coal will do!

It's the 950 tonnes of oil on board that's going to do the damage.

Just superb, isn't it? :ugh:
Only 15km outside the shipping lane, too. As if the poor planet didn't have enough to try and deal with. :(
I hope the reef is more resilient than recent worrying reports tend to indicate.

It was reported in the media within the last week China has surpassed Japan as our leading trading partner.

Yeah imagine if we missed a waypoint by 15km!!:rolleyes: How hard is it in this day and age anyway? He would have at least had GPS.

Oh come on:rolleyes: - if there is a spill, even a big one, on 'the reef' the tiny proportion actually effected will be in greater danger from the clean up than the oil. Have you ever actually seen 'the reef'? Its HUGE - thousands of reefs over hundreds of 1000s of square nm constantly being replenished of polyps from other reefs further out in the Pacific/PNG etc.

The Great barrier Reef is not fragile.

Love the comment on the ABC yesterday:

"Investigators say that the ship that ran aground shouldn't have been where it was".

No sh!t Sherlock!

HAHA....i thought such comment would only appears in the Daily Telegraph~~ :}

what happens to the man who polluted one of the seven natural wonders of the world back in homeland China..doesn't bear thinking about..still though pollution is par for the course over there :ooh:

Gets a kick up the backside for not cloning harvesting or planting a flag on it....


Mickjoebill

Ah, you've never used a Delco Carousel then. :)
I've been nearly 30nm off-track after going nine hours without an update across the Pacific. There was a pretty big heading change when we finally got a couple of DME's off LA.

Anyonw know who was doing the spraying?

What happened to the reef during WW2 ? ...oil slicks everywhere from what ah hear. Plus, what about all the other reef ship wrecks since fuel oil has been used ?

Clean up the mess, tho no need to get hysterical about it... :hmm:




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Anyonw know who was doing the spraying?


Operator from Emerald has the contract. Thrush based on 24/7 call.

Cc, yes, I've seen the reef. Part of it, anyway. Snorkeled on it, spent the day there, and listened to marine biologists talking about what is currently causing concern. (Marine biologists who were there, and also subsequently, on various documentaries. I don't believe all of them are crying "wolf".)

Things ain't what they were, apparently, years ago, when a pollution event -although horrid - did only temporary damage. I don't remember all the details, but many different ongoing events, including water temperature change, the slowing of the currents, overfishing, and increase of UV light, are collectively and cumulatively, having quite a bad effect on the reef's health.

I was led to believe that although it is not fragile, it is, in our time, in fairly worrying trouble.

A bit like some cancers. By the time the symptoms become obvious, it may be already too late.

Whats the name of the reefs halfway between Oz and NZ where all them wrecked ships are parked. Think it were Ben Cropp who did a doco out there diving amoungst all the wrecks on the pristine reefs. No mention of any oil cleanups out there...


Edit; found a ref - "...at least 32 vessels are known to have been wrecked on the reefs; 17 on Middleton Reef and 13 on Elizabeth Reef. Some authorities believe the real figure may be as high as 90..." Considering the small size and isolation of these reefs its probably a good study of what happens to a reef after a shipwreck. Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Park Reserve - Home Page


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