Seguridad marítima
Piden declarar emergencia ambiental en Islas Galápagos por buque encallado
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- Published on Monday, 02 February 2015 18:13
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Por Afp
sáb, 31 ene 2015 16:32
Quito. Las islas ecuatorianas de Galápagos, uno de los ecosistemas más frágiles del planeta y patrimonio de la Humanidad, enfrentan un nuevo riesgo provocado por el encallamiento el miércoles de un barco que ya derramó sustancias tóxicas al mar.
El Comité de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE), que evalúa el encallamiento del barco 'Floreana' con productos contaminantes, pidió este sábado que se declare una emergencia ambiental para enfrentar posibles daños ecológicos y se tomen medidas para garantizar el abastecimiento de combustibles y alimentos al archipiélago, que tiene 26 mil habitantes y está ubicado en el océano Pacífico, a unos mil km de la costa ecuatoriana.
"Las declaratorias de emergencias permitirán a las autoridades disponer de recursos económicos
MARY CELESTE WAS ABANDONED DURING A SEAQUAKE!
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- Published on Monday, 02 February 2015 02:51
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Capt. David Williams
I'm a 73-year-old sea captain with over 50 years of ocean-going experience. During all this time, my real passion has been solving the mysteries of the sea. I hope you enjoy my seaquake solution to the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
The Mary C was not the only ship hit hard by seaquake shocks near the Azores. In 1884, the Carl, a full-rigged 1,303 ton vessel loaded with barrels of oil, encountered a seaquake near Santa Maria Island (link). In 1968, an undersea earthquake sank the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. Six months after the Scorpion went down, shock waves from a violent seabed disturbance turned the oil tanker Ida Knudsen into 32,000 tons of scrap metal (link).
The US Navy tried desperately to cover-up the where and why of the USS Scorpionsinking because her nuclear reactor
Increase in Casualties Likely in 2015
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- Published on Sunday, 01 February 2015 06:45
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By MarEx 2015-01-30 18:14:14
Shipping safety remains an ever present issue at the start of 2015 as industry regulators make louder calls to investigate a range of incident types and improve safety standards. According to the latest data from IHS, a leading global provider of critical information and insight, a total of 1,639 maritime casualty incidents were reported during 2014, a 10 percent increase from 2013 when 1,489 incidents were reported.
The chart below shows the numbers of incident types that has occurred for 2013 and 2014 across all incident categories worldwide.
Notably, of all the casualty incident types, hull and machinery damage, wrecking and stranding, ship-on-ship collisions and contact damage continues to show a marked increase in incident rates, IHS Maritime
Ship runs aground in Delaware Bay
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- Published on Sunday, 01 February 2015 20:01
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A 470-foot ship with a cargo of fresh produce has run aground in Delaware Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
A crewmember of the Santa Lucia contacted the Coast Guard about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday to report the grounding near Miah Maull Shoal as the ship headed to Philadelphia.
Working with Delaware and New Jersey officials, the Coast Guard is working with the ship owner's
Coquimbo: Siguen diligencias por buque varado con petróleo en la Bahía
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- Published on Friday, 30 January 2015 07:32
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A pesar de que hace unos días el Ministro de Medio Ambiente, Pablo Badenier, habría enviado un oficio al vicealmirante de la Armada, Osvaldo Schwarzenberg, acusando la preocupación existente ante la situación del buque Humberto B – varado desde 2011 en la Bahía de Coquimbo en deplorables condiciones con una cantidad de 50 mil litros de petróleo tipo búnker, según lo denunciado el pasado mes de diciembre por el gremio pesquero- y exigiendo que se tomaran todas las medidas pertinentes para enfrentar la situación, ante la falta de acciones concretas, es ahora el Ministro de Defensa, Jorge Burgos, el que se ha comprometido a oficial a la Armada para que tome cartas en el asunto.