Oil loss from ship stops
PA Wellington Fuel oil from the sunken Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov has virtually stopped leaking from the vessel’s bunkers, said a Ministry of Transport spokesman yesterday. The nautical adviser in the Ministry’s Marine Division, Captain David Boyes, said only small amounts of oil were now escaping from the bunkers.
This indicated that the tanks had not suffered a major rupture in the sinking, he said.
Booms and skimmers from Auckland were on their way to Port Gore to deal with the oil that had
risen to the surface, and a chemical dispersant had been sent from Christchurch to help in the clean-up.
“We are concerned with the first-aid aspect of the problem at the momentcleaning up the oil which is floating on the surface now,” said Captain Boyes. “We have not given a great deal of thought as to possible recovery of the oil still in the bunkers. “That is a matter for the ship’s owners or insurers to decide.” There were a number of possible options on recovering oil from the bunkers before it could cause damage to the environment, said Captain Boyes.
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