O....thanks for the follow-up on that SA PR company.
Also VERY interesting is the info. in the last paragraph regarding the CLINTON connection to this company....just shocking! </sarcasm>
Slick measured at 2.5 miles in diameter and expanding
Updated: 9:43 a.m. ET Dec. 10, 2004ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As the search for six victims of a rescue helicopter crash was scaled back, officials on Friday turned to a growing problem stemming from the break up of a cargo ship off Alaska: a major oil spill near a sensitive wildlife refuge.
'Not easy to clean up'
The freighter was carrying 483,000 gallons of heavy bulk fuel and another 21,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
While small compared to the 11 million gallon Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989, the marine spill is thought to be the largest in Alaska since then.
The 738-foot Selendang Ayu was cleaved neatly in two, both pieces grounded upright and parallel about 200 feet from the shore near Skan Bay on the western side of Unalaska Island. Farther upshore lay the wreckage of the Coast Guard helicopter, its red fuselage blackened and barely recognizable.
The freighter belongs to Singapore-based IMC Group. IMC crew manager Loh C.W. Weng said the missing were Indian citizens Z.M. Vaz, age 46; Blaise M. Mascarenhas, 33; Narendra S. Yadav, 52; Durg V. Singh, 54; and Didlar Singh, 44. Carlos Flores Santiago, 45, is the missing crew member from the Philippines.
Oil Spill in Wea is China's 'Worst Ever'(12/10/04)
December 10, 2004 - 4:24PM Strong winds and choppy seas have hampered efforts of a government team trying to clean up a massive oil spill that officials have declared the worst-ever in Chinese waters.
Some 524,000 litres of crude oil leaked late Tuesday when a German-registered container ship, the MSC Ilona, collided with the Panama-registered Hyundai Advance, puncturing the Ilona's hull and sending its cargo streaming into the South China Sea.
The spill - 16 kilometres long and 200 metres wide - was the worst ever in Chinese waters, the official China Daily newspaper reported, citing Wang Xiangtao, director of the Guangdong Provincial Marine Bureau....