It’s a mess for the folks down in Port Arthur Texas this weekend, as crews work to clean up the estimated 11,000 barrels of crude oil that spilled from the Singapore flagged crude tanker Eagle Otome after it collided with a barge being pushed by the towing vessel Dixie Vengeance in the Sabine Neches Waterway near Port Arthur.
One might not normally associate the main deck with confined spaces, but after reading the latest marine accident investigation report from the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) you may think otherwise
Ships are breakable – just another reminder. It appears they really screwed up during tank washing, by not calculating stresses. This results in a condition called “hogging” in which two ends of the ship are loaded, creating extreme stresses at the center of the ship. This appears to be what happened in the case of the T/V Elli.
The Somali pirates are at it again, apparently taking advantage of good weather, and lackluster protection provided by international naval forces. In the past 2 days, two European owned tankers have been seized by Somali pirates.
AFP provides the following details -
The Maritime Security Centre run by the EU naval force said that the 9,000-tonne Greek-owned, [...]
“We’ve fetched up hard aground, north of Goose Island, off Bligh Reef and evidently leaking some oil and we’re gonna be here for a while.”
Exxon Valdez has indeed been here a while. One can only wonder if CAPT Hazelwood realized the impact his ship would have on the maritime industry when he made that initial [...]
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