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EKOLOGICZNA

A "coaster" is a vessel which plys the coastwise trade from port to
port along a continental coast

M/V Heinrich Behrmann

serves a

regular container line between the ports of Waterford, Ireland &
Zeebrugge, Belgium.
This Is Her Story From Thursday Nov. 8 2001 To Saturday Nov.
10 2001

Thursday Was A "Dark & Stormy Night" As

M/V Heinrich

Behrmann

Approached Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium

Former Mercahnt Vessel Deck

Officer Jacques Reyniers Was

Driving To Work At 7:00am

When His Car Radio Broadcast

First Word -- A Vessel Had

Grounded On The Beach of

Blankenberge.

Blankenberge -- Favorite

Summer Resort On The Belgian

Coast.

M/V Heinrich Behrmann

Was Fast Aground Near

Blankenbergen With 80 Containers

By Mid Day

M/V Heinrich Behrmann

Had Become A Citizen

of Blankenbergen

Three attempts were made to secure the vessel By Tugs, but each
time the tow lines snapped. Driven by wind

M/V Heinrich

Behrmann

grounded at the Blankenberge resort beach. 3 tugboat

crew injured while trying to tow

M/V Heinrich Behrmann

back to

open sea.

It is 19 Aug. 2003, early morning, in stormy seas off the coast of South
Africa -- near Dolphin Beach near Milnerton, Cape Town.
The 32,926 DWT D-9 Class U.S. Registeed container M/V Sealand
Express, Durban & Port Elizabeth For Cape Town is fighting
heavy swells & high winds off the approach to Capetown.
Disaster Struck at 6:55 a.m.

US-flagged Maersk
container ship Sealand
Express (32,926 DWT),
carrying 1,037 containers,
went aground at Dolphin
Beach, Cape Town at about
0730 local time this
morning after dragging its
anchor in heavy seas.

Two harbour tugs and a
salvage tug on contract
to the South African
Maritime Safety
Authority (SAMSA)
responded to the initial
call, but by the time
they had reached the
scene 20 minutes later
the ship's bows were
aground on sand. The
ship is now grounded
firmly onto sand, where
a heavy swell has
begun pounding it, and
lying parallel with the
beach a short distance
away.

A Smit Pentow salvage team, under contract to Maersk Sealand,
boarded the vessel to secure the safety of the crew and to attempt
salvage. According to SAMSA a further attempt to tow the vessel clear
will be made at high tide later today. Meanwhile the National Ports
Authority in Cape Town reports there is no evidence of pollution

1 Oct. 2002 -- Official - From Hual Lines A/S. >> M/V Hual
Europe - Grounding in Tokyo Bay. On 1 October 2002, at 1854
LT, M/V Hual Europe grounded on the Island O-Shima in Tokyo
Bay, Japan with about 4,000 vehicles.

27 Nov. 2002 -- Official - From Hual Lines A/S. >> M/V Hual
Europe - Fire In Grounded Vessel -- The vessel rolled over
yesterday & split into two parts and at the same time caught fire.
Cause of the fire is unknown. The Marine Disaster Prevention Center
is attending to extinguish the fire & limit the environmental
consequences.

M/V Hual Europe

has rolled over, broke in half & caught fire.

US$60M ship, carrying 4,000 automobiles & heavy machinery,
declared total loss. HUAL's insurers negotiating for contract to
remove wreck. (Thurs. Nov. 28 2002)

The motor tanker SEA EMPRESS loaded with a cargo of 130,018 tonnes
of Forties light crude oil grounded off the Middle Channel Rocks in the
approaches to Milford Haven at 2007 hrs on 15 February 1996.

SEA EMPRESS and tugs on Wednesday 21 February

SEA EMPRESS on Sunday 18 February

Full Speed Ahead! >> 41,570dwt, 2,987 TEU container M/V
Alva Star (ex- Norasia Star, ex- MSC Jasmine, ex- Norasia
Malta), Haifa for

#AlvaStar

Kepec, Croatia -- ran into a 100

meter high cliff at full cruising speed! The "short cut" was not
optimal. In other words, Alva Star rammed the Souh East
corner of Zakinthos Island, Greece -- burying its bulbous bow
in rocks & 25 meters of vessel on Oct. 3, 2002.

498-ton M/V Shin Tsunetoyo Maru, with 6 crew,
Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture for Shunan,
Yamaguchi Prefecture, with iron ore scrap, Sept. 3
2004

Newly reburbished 457ft. double-ended ocean 7,000-ton ferry

M/V Queen of Oak Bay

<< Webfeature, with 544 passengers

&189 vehicles -- lost power while entering Port of Vancouver &
making docking turn -- smashed into

Sewell's Marina

<<

Webfeature, adjacent to the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. M/V
Queen of Oak Bay<< Webfeature, devistated Sewell's Marina,
smashing into numerous yachts & destroying up to 30 vessels.
No Injuries.

The Cargo Letter For March 25 2005: UPDATE>>badly grounded
barge Millicoma was equipt with large air blowers that pump air
into the barge's cargo compartments --activated at daybreak
pumping air into the barge. Once freed from rocky cove the
barge will be towed across the Columbia River to Astoria by M/V
Salvage Chief. Three other vessels, the M/V Navajo, an ocean
tug owned by Sause Bros, & 2 Foss Maritime tugs, M/V
American & M/V Betsy L. are near M/V Salvage Chief to provide
support. As bad as this was -- a miracle endng! (Fri. Mar. 25
2005)

Greek M/T Tasman Spirit, with 67,500 tons of crude, grounded off
Karachi port since July 27, likely to break into 2 parts within
next 12 hours, which could cause a massive oil spill threatening
marine life, mangrove forests -- unleashing ecological disaster.
Estimated approximately 44,000 tons of crude still aboard. (Sat. Aug.
9 2003)

Huge oil slick from M/T Tasman Spirit hit Karachi coast last week,
polluting sea & damaging marine life. M/T Tasman Spirit, chartered
by Pakistan's national shipping corporation, was carrying 62,000 tons
of crude oil when it ran aground in late July. Some of the oil has been
pumped out, but port authorities say they have not been able to do
much. Beach has been closed to public. (Fri. 22 Aug. 2003)

Photos taken after the tanker Exxon Valdez grounded on Bligh
Reef in the upper part of Prince William Sound on March 24,
1989. The tanker was carrying approximately 53 million gallons
of crude oil. Within a few days, it had spilled almost 11 million
gallons of the oil into Prince William Sound.

Shortly after leaving the Port of Valdez, the Exxon Valdez
ran aground on Bligh Reef. This picture  was taken 3 days
after the vessel grounded, just before a storm arrived.

Cleanup operations included skimming oil from the water surface
with towed booms, as shown below. Two boats are towing the
boom (only one is visible in this photo). Oil is collecting within the
boom, and a small skimmer at the apex of the boom is removing
the oil from the water surface. The skimmed oil is being pumped
through a hose into the barge that is following the skimmer.

After the remaining cargo was offloaded and the Exxon
Valdez was refloated, the vessel was moved to Outside Bay,
southwest of Naked Island, where temporary repairs were
made. Here, you can see it at anchor in Outside Bay,
surrounded by protective boom.

Depending on what source you read it was either Saturday
March 18th or Sunday March 19th 1967 that the Torrey Canyon
grounded on the Seven Stones Reef between Lands End and
the Scilly Isles. She was sailing for Milford Haven with 120,000
tons of crude oil from Kuwaiti.

Tugs abandoning her after futile attempt to free her.

Now split into two halves.

Stern awash.

Breaking up.

Clouds of smoke is all that remains after being bombed
and fired upon.

Grounding Checklist

• 1.General alarm sounded...................................................................

• 2.Main engine stopped...................................................................

• 3.Master informed...................................................................

• 4.Engine room informed...................................................................

• 5.Note exact position and

time...................................................................

• 6.Urgent (PAN PAN)/ distress message sent.........................................

• 7.Watertight doors and automatic fire doors closed............................

• 8.Ignition sources eliminated..................................................................

• 9.Deck lighting switched on...................................................................

• 10.Crew and passengers mustered at emergency stations..

• 11.Crew divided into emergency units and equipped as necessary

• 12.Life-saving appliances prepared for use......................................

• 13.Bilges and tanks sounded...................................................................

• 14.Sight check of hull condition and water around the ship, when

possible using a boat.

15.Damaged stability calculation

• 16.Evaluation of ship's

damage............................................

• 17.Evaluation of environmental

pollution......................................

• 18.Evaluation of health hazards for

crew.......................................

• 19.Forecast of

weather..................................................................

• 20.Forecast of

tide..................................................................

• 21.Gathering of

evidences.................................................

• 22.Accuracy of clocks on bridge/engine

room..............................

• 23.Entry into ship's log............................................

• 24.Coast station/ local authorities

informed.............................

• 25.Vessel's position available in radio room, up-dated if

necessary.

• 26.Initial grounding report sent to

company..........................

• 27.Remarks..................................................................

Shipboard Contingency

Plan

GROUNDING/STRANDING

(a)

Sound the GENERAL ALARM, inform the Engine Room.

(b)

Consider to stop engine, consider to use anchors.

(c)

CLOSE WATERTIGHT DOORS.

(d)

Keep VHF on Channel 16, INFORM ships in vicinity.

(e)

Take SOUNDINGS of bilge’s and tanks, watch for leaks.

(f) Watch for POLLUTION by OIL.
(h)

Inform COMPANY HEAD OFFICE, SZCZECIN,

AUTHORITIES,

INSURANCE COMPANY, AMVER, etc.

(i) Inform others as appropriate: Port Agents, Stevedores,

Police.

(j) Give VESSEL'S

POSITION

to the Radio Operator.

(k)

Consider the DANGERS of the situation, use proper

type of Radio Message

according to the situation.

(l) Consider actions to REDUCE FURTHER DAMAGE.