Guimaras oil spill

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The Solar 1 was a Filipino oil tankers. The ship sank on 11 August 2006 at the island of Guimaras with a cargo of about 2100 tons of bunker oil.

History

This was put into operation on December 15, 1988 tanker had a survey of 998 gross tonnage and a capacity of 2129 dwt The tanker was acquired on 4 July 2001 from the Sunshine Maritime Development in Manila and drove to the end of 2004 under the name Newhinase. At the time of the accident was driving the solar one in a charter of the Philippine Petron Corporation.

On 11 August 2006, came with a cargo of about 2100 tons of heavy oil of the variety IFO 217 laden ship in the Guimaras Strait in heavy seas in distress and sank about ten miles south of the island of Guimaras. In the accident, two of the twenty crew members were killed. Almost the complete charge this went into the sea, as later investigations of the wreck showed.

The measures after the accident were conducted by the Philippine Coast Guard ( PCG ) using the Petron Corporation, and international support. The oil slick was fought from aircraft and ships with chemical solvents. On land, the cleaning work covered in the main to the approximately 125 km from the most affected areas of the south and southwest coast of Guimaras. The coral reefs and sea grass meadows in Iceland Taklong National Marine Reserve were severely damaged. The work took about three months, and were carried out by residents of the affected area and with the support of Petron and the PCG. The collected material was burned on the merits in a cement factory on the island of Mindanao.

The accident of the Solar 1 was the first to be executed in accordance with the Small Tanker Oil Pollution Indemnification Agreement ( STOPIA 2006), a voluntary agreement of the P & I Clubs (ship insurers ). The new agreement included a larger amount of 20 million Special Drawing Rights ( SDRs) for the settlement of a loss of a single ship with a measurement below 29 548 GT. Under the Civil Liability Convention previously valid from 1992 for ships with a survey among 5,000 GRT the border had stood at 4.51 million SDRs.