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...Aristide fails to return, the call for "leaving day" will be passed by word of mouth, and all the boats will embark at once. The hope is that the Coast Guard will be overwhelmed, allowing perhaps a handful of boats to make it through. If Petit-Trou's vessel is not among the fortunate few, the village, like Francois Nassau, will surely have outstripped its endurance. Perhaps then it will simply curl up, tuck an arm beneath its head, and quietly...
...fire-control specialists were rushed to the scene of a burning oil tanker, this time near the entrance to the Indian Ocean's Malaccan Strait. The Danish-owned Maersk Navigator, carrying 78 million gal. of light crude, had collided with an empty Japanese tanker, rupturing one of the loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship...
Along with money, the EAC also hopes to be able to present the house committee of the winning house with an actual Green Cup, which will be an ecologically correct ceramic vessel...
...TANKER AEGEAN SEA NEVER MADE PORT. Loaded with nearly 24 million gal. of North Sea crude, struggling in heavy seas, the Greek-registered vessel foundered on rocks near the entrance to the Spanish port of La Coruna and began leaking from at least two of its nine tanks. As a series of explosions tore through the ship, sinking its bow and adding to the sludgy deluge, rescuers evacuated all of the 29-member crew by helicopter. The accident occurred at almost the exact spot along the northwest shore, nicknamed the "Coast of Death" for its toll on sea traffic over...
...Worthy Vessel...