Rabu, 12 Oktober 2011

Stricken Ship Cracks as Captain Faces New Zealand Court

A burden address that has agitated hundreds of bags of oil back arresting a beach off New Zealand's bank appeared to be breaking up in abundant seas, as its captain faced bent accuse in cloister Wednesday.A vertical able was credible from the accouter to the waterline of the Liberian-flagged Rena, which ran ashore Oct. 5 on Astrolabe Reef, 14 afar from Tauranga Harbour on New Zealand's North Island. About 70 containers accept collapsed off the accouter of the 775-foot barge as it has listed more in the deepening ocean conditions.Maritime New Zealand, which is managing the emergency response, declared the able as a "substantial structural failure" and warned that the ascetic may breach away. Three tug boats were mobilized to authority the ascetic on the beach while efforts are fabricated to abolish the oil from the ship, or to tow the ascetic to bank water, the bureau said in a statement.Weather on the beach was abhorrent Wednesday, with swells up to 16 feet, Maritime New Zealand agent Steve Jones told The Associated Press. The barbarous altitude were authoritative it absurd for a deliver aggregation to lath the ship, he said. Without the deliver aggregation aboard, oil cannot be pumped out of the ship.


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