Salvage team to begin removing ship’s oil
PA Wellington Salvage experts expect to begin pumping fuel oil from the bunkers of the sunken Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov by Wednesday. The man in charge of the salvage work, Mr lan Lockley, said that a specially chartered oil tanker was due to arrive in Port Gore Bay today to begin taking the oil on board.
He said the tanker Pacific Navigator was typical of the kind of vessel used for transport-
ing oil between Pacific islands, and had not been modified in any way for the salvage work. The pumping of the estimated 2000 tonnes of fuel oil from the liner’s bunkers is expected to take up to five days if weather conditions remain favourable.
Mr Lockley said that most of the oil in the bunkers would still be usable, and would be returned to the ship’s owner, the Baltic Shipping company, as it was still its property.
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