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| Posted: Sat Jan 16th, 2010 06:23 pm |
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Chris Shelton Senior Member 
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I've just heard some TERRIBLE news! Apparently a tanker has run aground near Melkbos and is already spilling oil! There are fears that the oil will clog the intakes of the nucleur power station. Strong SE at the moment is 'favourable' in that it will take the slick out to sea. I don't have a TV so I'm kinda in the dark. Heard this from a mate. Anyone got more details?
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16th, 2010 06:40 pm |
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Chris Shelton Senior Member
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Just got the following from News24. I see it is from an old wreck. Still bad news!  Oil slick not a threat 2010-01-16 20:04 Print article Email article Johannesburg - An oil slick from a vessel that sank ten years ago near Koeberg Nuclear Power Station is not a threat, the City of Cape Town said on Saturday. "From the aerial assessment conducted it has been noted that the oil slick is disintegrating and therefore poses no environmental threat," Wilfred Solomons-Johannes, spokesperson for the Disaster Risk Management Centre said. "Yesterday [Friday] the oil slick reflected a spectrum of colours, and today it appears to be a sheen reflection. "The disaster response teams remains on standby and on high-alert." The oil slick is positioned four nautical miles north-north-west from the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. It is moving at five knots per hour in a south-westerly direction away from the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. The dimension is 400m in length and 10m in width, he said. "Koeberg Nuclear Power Station has been advised to keep the booms lowered in the event the tide changes which could have a counter-current effect where the oil slick can enter the in-take basin of the plant."
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16th, 2010 07:00 pm |
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Serra Moz Senior Member 
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Just for info sake, anyone got an idea what type of ship and when it went down? I take it, it must have been quite a few years ago if the oil starts seeping out due to corrosion ect...
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16th, 2010 09:05 pm |
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Chris Shelton Senior Member
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Sank ten years ago. They say the oil is disintegrating? I didn't know that was possible
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 04:59 am |
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Angus Senior Member 
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Was 10 years ago ( June 2000) when about 20000 penguins were oiled. SANCCOB had their hands full for months. See http://www.sanccob.co.za/?m=2&s=5 http://www.yzerfontein.net/dassen-island/treasure-oil-spill.html
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 05:02 am |
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MouseDog Senior Member 
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Chris Shelton wrote: Just got the following from News24. I see it is from an old wreck. Still bad news! How fast is that in layman's terms???
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 06:26 am |
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snorre Member 
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MouseDog wrote:Chris Shelton wrote:Just got the following from News24. I see it is from an old wreck. Still bad news! ± 9.25999 km/h same speed when you jog along the beach enjoying the scenery Quite worrying could be serious problems
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 09:51 am |
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Serra Moz Senior Member
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Thanks for the info!
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 12:38 pm |
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Seeker1 Senior Member 
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Ten years ago, I supervised the clean-up in the Port of Cape Town of the oil that leaked from the Treasure, the clean-up opperation took two weeks with teams working 24 hours a day, can't remember how many tons we recovered but it was a fair bit. (still got the T shirt) The Treasure was a bulk ore carrier and the heavy fuel oil on board was only to power the vessel, if I remember correctly there was something like a 1000 plus tons of bunker oil on board when she sank. The oil that remained on board after the sinking was pumped off by divers at the time. The oil that appeared on the surface the other day may have been trapped in the hull and then released due to corrosion. A oil slick 100m x 40m comes from a small amount of oil and in the open sea will break naturally. Who remembers the Venpet and Venoil (not sure about spelling) the two VLC tankers that collided of Saldanha Bay years ago, well one of them is still down there with many, many tons of crude oil still on board.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 03:07 pm |
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martinb77 Member 
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apparently some vessels sunk in the second world war by German U Boats or in Pearl harbour by japanese torpedos still have large amounts of oil in the tanks and it is seeping very slowly out of the corroded wrecks.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17th, 2010 09:04 pm |
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rofflign Senior Member 
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it's a storm in a teacup..nothing to worry about, in fact it's already breaking up, more than likely fuel oil.
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