Any news from the EPA????????. Or are they strangely silent. Pretty easy to push a few fisherman around surely a few containers would be a cinch for them :p.
Any news from the EPA????????
Finding containers - don't we have orions , seakings and a collins class or 2 . If they couldn't find them I don't like their chances of protecting out borders but will they do it???
We nearly struck a container years ago that had been in the water a long time by the look of it and sat about 2 feet under the surface , if it wasn't for the plentifull fish underneath it we would have been well pissed off. Was partially torn and looked like it was full of foam and wood.
Couldn't believe what a good fad it was
We told police it's position and attached a small buoy on a rope so it was visable
don't worry, the epa will do their job where ships are concerned. they'll keep it in port till it's fixed and also clean up the mess at the expense of the ship operator.
Originally Posted by The-easyrider
Apparently the container ship had to make a hard right, losing it's load, to avoid running into a tinny, fishing in a Green Zone with four rods, 8 hooks, turtle-catching crab-pots, anchor-dragging thorough seagrass beds at more than 4 knots ...
Did I miss something???
Could be a good method for the navy to go fishing. Just hit it with a small torpedo..........KABOOM. Then just scoop up all the stunned fish. Isn't that the square hook method used up north in PNG
Chris
water police should be able to tell us if the containers floated or sunk?
i am guessing that they are floating, which most containers can do for quite a long period.
Mike
31 forty foot containers fell off a ship last night out from Moreton, should make a decent arti!!!.
They have just put out the first Notice to Mariners Warning on them;
OUTSIDE PILOTAGE AREAS
LOCALITY: CAPE MORETON
ACTIVITY: CONTAINERS LOST OVERBOARD
Mariners are advised that thirty-one shipping containers have been lost over the side from a ship
about 7 NM east of Cape Moreton in approximate position Latitude 27° 01.5'S, Longitude
153°36'E. There have been no reports of any containers floating, however the containers may be
floating just under the surface of the water. The containers were reported overboard at 03:15hrs
11 March 2009.
Mariners are advised exercise extreme caution when navigating in this area and report the
position of any shipping containers to Brisbane Port Control.
AUS Charts Affected: 235
Maritime Safety Queensland Charts Affected: Moreton Bay – Manly to Mooloolaba (MB1)
Maritime Safety Queensland Beacon to Beacon Directory 7th Edition map 5
Maritime Safety Queensland Beacon to Beacon Directory 8th Edition map 5
so there is your GPS marks for your new artificial reef
ABC radio had a report from a chopper crew that they did a search grid over the reported position of the lost containers and could see none afloat.
They also report an oil spill 400 mt wide by 20 kms long which they followed in the hope of seeing containers,but did not see any.
New Arti in place.probably in a declared no-fishing zone.
Lets see the Greenies try to make them into green zones TIC.
Won't be long and they will definitely start to attract the fish, just have to find and plot them.
Fillet and Release Squad
I suspect the deck of the ship will be vacuum cleaned at the port to handle the spill using big industrial vehicle mounted vacuums.
Aparently the 32 shipping containers came off the boat in very deep water indicating that it was well offshore from point lookout where it all happened.
EPA whist concerned about the loss of the containers of amonia nitrate, are more worried about the spillages off the deck into moreton bay being a shallow environemnt that recycles the majority of its water each tide. There is also a fairly major oil spill on the damaged ship that lost the containers. Aparently they can not effectively contain the oil leak.
Jack.
Fuel tank gash!!
Diesel + Ammonium nitrate...now that's cooking with gas
cheers fnq
Hmm, weren't they full of ammonium nitrate tho???
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