Around 100,000 litres of oil from the cyclone-stricken Pacific Adventurer
have washed up on the shores of Moreton and Bribie island and parts of the
Sunshine Coast.
The areas have been declared disaster zones and state and federal authorities
are responding, while the maritime watchdog is investigating the spill
**this happend wendsday at 3pm To day** **FRIDAY** **NOTHING DONE** ?
[img_assist|nid=1041257|title=oil|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=545]i am glad i spent quality time on these places when they were pristen
however i am disgusted
russians no f###ken chinese
** well if everybody is happy to see there backyards f###ked**
**why should i give a shit
**
Hey Huie, to a certain degree its human nature to be indifferent until something happens in the backyard…however, as information trickles down the line the compassionate and politically motivated ones come out.
I’m getting the news from another friend in Caloundra also, so its not something I can turn a blind eye to. You are right onto it because you are right there, but don’t write off everyone who is not so immediately touched by it, YET!
Josh
josh i know you are right
but this is a major stuff up.
the stinken rust bucket is still leaking oil in the river 4 days later
not to mention the 600 tons of sodium nitrate that went over the side off point lookout.
** sorry i sound f###ked up but i pbrly am
**
Hey ,
Oooh that is heavy…the YET bit is NOW for the culpable twats…
**my mistake it was ammonium nitrate **
** good for those bombmakers out there they could come **
& get it there is no one here in charge off anything
**
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Tonnes of ammonium nitrate leaking into Moreton Bay from a cargo
ship will suffocate fish and kill habitats, says a marine life
expert.
A cocktail of 650 tonnes of fuel and fertiliser has spewed from
a cargo ship battered by fierce seas from cyclone Hamish off the
southeast Queensland coast.
Thirty-one shipping containers carrying 620 tonnes of ammonium
nitrate have fallen overboard the Pacific Adventurer, damaging the
ship’s fuel stores in the hull at 3.15am (AEST) on Wednesday.
[img_assist|nid=1041268|title=a nitrate|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=359]
Those containers float like icebers.
.I don’t know what can be said about it, but what a fuckin mess. Fertilizer and oil. Good for making your lawn green, gas for the car, and blowing shit up. Sometimes people use humor and sarcasm to ease the pain and fear. I do. It often comes out wrong. Good luck you guys. Hopefully, the people responsible will assume responsibility instead of tying it all up in courtrooms and start cleaning that shit up. Sorry to all. It makes me sick to look at it. Mike
Jeez Huie thats terrible man.
Those photos make me feel ill, it’s only when I imagined that happening in my own backyard that it truely hit home.
I really hope something can be done?
What the hell can they do in that situation?
The real scary thing is that it could happen anywhere, anytime. The finger is now starting to be pointed at the captain and there is a lot of debate abut the actual cleanup - because an election is looming it is probably harder to sort fact from fiction than usual. I suspect the inital reports of only 30 gallons made it all seem less serious than it actually was (and still is).
Bob
**hey bob no fiction about the fact that this happened wed 3 am**
friday 3pm not a soul on morton doing anything
a sea eagle lands to pick up a dead fish gets covered in oil
what about the port authoritys in newcastle let a vessel
head in to the path off a cyclone of the size off that
the incompetance off the govt state&fed is hard to fathom.
**i am sorry but there is no one stering our ship?
**
Huie,
Like most others I am reliant on what I hear on the news. The story goes that big ships routinely go out to sea in large seas. perhaps they do, I don;t know. The two other points of controversy seem to be to whether the problem was known and purposely under-reported or not; and secondly, whether it is better to try to clean this up in the water or await it beng washed ashore. Were the ‘technical experts’ giving advice on these matters wrong, I don’t know, but I suspect that there will some form of inquiry that will be held.
I agree this is a tragic disgrace,
Bob