soubriquet 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Ane empty coal ship has been beached off Newcastle (Australia). Now, according to News.com, this empty coal ship has been transmogrified into a tanker. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21871056-2,00.html "Tanker beached Meanwhile coal ship is threatening to leak tonnes of oil off Newcastle's most popular beach after it ran aground during wild weather on the Hunter coast today. " It's a tanker. Run for your lives everyone, we're all going to die. Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 I got coal in my christmas stocking once. When I asked my dad why Santa gave me coal, I too thought I was going to die. Technically, coal is fuel. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Author Share Posted June 9, 2007 Coal is not oil, and a bulk carrier is not a tanker. Don't let facts get in the way of a good scare story. It is an empty ship, but that doesn't go well with Australia's leading media. Look forward to the rumour they were carrying illegal imigrants. Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 You've gotta watch out for them illegals. Back when we stacked them in ships and tied them in columns, they were called slaves. Now they do it themselves and we call them illegals in some failed attempt to say the population isn't growing that fast here. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 yeah it's an empty ship but full of fuel. Would suck if it broke up.. anyway, there's more important news.. Paris might be going back to jail! Link to post Share on other sites
ausi ski bum 1 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 It has over 700 tonnes of fuel oil and another 100 tones of other oils, thats a lot of oil when its only 30 to 50 metres off the beach Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 'ken oath..E specially some of those beaches around there.. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Author Share Posted June 9, 2007 Indeed. It is carrying fuel. That still doesn't alter the fact that it is a bulk carrier. Why is it described as a tanker? Max headline value? Surely not. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 9, 2007 Author Share Posted June 9, 2007 The "tanker" which ran aground yesterday, was in fact an empty double-hulled bulk carrier waiting to load coal at Newcastle. An official spokespeople said "There is no truth to the rumour it was carrying 40,000 tonnes of illegal immigrants." Doncha just love a beatup. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Souds- Settle down mate. We have just been hit by the equivelent of a category 1 cyclone!!!!! One excited journo's misuse of the word 'tanker' didn't deserve your rant. It took hours for anyone to even identify this ship when the story broke. Over 200000 home and businesses have been without power and phone for 2 days now. (we have just got ours back) Major flooding in Newcastle, 7 people dead, no water to thousand of homes, sewerage spewing into the streets, 5 ambulances got trashed doing rescue work. Swells of up to 17.9 meters lashing the coast. A empty bulk carrier ( which has about 100000 litres of oil and fuel inside ) sitting on one of the cities beaches getting hammered by these massive swells. In short. Total Mayhem! This was Boat Harbour, where I live (50-km north of the ship wreck site) on Friday This is my Mates house This is deep inside Boat Harbour. Normally where kids play and people launch their boats! Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Same more photos of the storm. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 I can't see that first set of pics. Glad you're okay, Mantas. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Take care mate! (Is that snow on the hillside?) Link to post Share on other sites
ausi ski bum 1 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 I live 400km south of there and we never got a drop of rain, thats Aussie Weather for you. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Some pretty severe weather going on there! Originally Posted By: Mantas Swells of up to 17.9 meters lashing the coast. Don't you love how in all the mayhem they can get that to within 10 cm of a meter. I mean, why not just go for 18?? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 Australia goes from drought to flood without passing Go. I like it here. Today was cool and wet with a soft rain. Every square cm of soil is bursting with vegetation. I don't miss that barren bare red soil. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 I like it here too but wish things were less extreme (well maybe not in winter). There always seems to be something fairly serious going on weather wise. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Things have settled down a bit now. Man what a storm! I've never experienced anything quite like that before. We got off pretty lightly. A few trees down in the backyard (unfortunately one of those trees had the kids tree house in it.), some minor flooding in the house and no power for a few days. Some people have lost everything. My brothers house got trashed, water up to the hieght of the beds! I took the kids down to see the Pasha Bulkar on Nobbys beach on Monday, it was amazing to see this massive ship sitting almost high and dry on one of the beaches on a popular city beach. I was listening to the events unfold during the storm on the radio. What you probably didn't hear was that 2 other ships put out SOS calls and almost ended up on the beaches as well. One came within 300m of the beach. Not that supprising really as there are nearly 70 ships waiting offshore to get coal. This is a photo I took on Monday Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 Glad You're OK mantas. I didn't start this thread to trash Oz, or understate the magnitude of the storm. Good luck. Great shot Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 No worrys Soub, I dont doubt the Media was going for shock value. I'll keep you posted on the salvage operation. It should be interesting. The ship is hardly damaged and they'll try to 'pull' it off. Link to post Share on other sites
js 0 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Glad you're okay too. My Brother lives near Gosford and he too got a similar outcome. It was very considerate of the Tanker (Bulk Carrier ) Captain to park it so close to shore so the illegals could disembark without getting wet sandals. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 Trouble maker. Check the sandals to see if they are made from old car tyres. If they are Ho Chi Milers, the illegals are from Vietnam. If they are wearing socks, they're Poms. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Subz, If they keep it there long enough, could become a nice sandbank off the thing. Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Well it's still there! The big salvage effort is under way. The next big tide is in 2 weeks time. they are going to put the ships 2 big anchors out to see and use the winches as well as a couple of the largest tug boat i've ever seen. There is also some kind of sand blasting going to go on under the ship. The salvage crews are giving no guarantees of the operations success. the seas have not let up for 10 days now. They can't gat a good look below the water. Another storm and huge swell is predicted for this week too. At least i've been getting some decent waves from all this. Link to post Share on other sites
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