Jia Yong
The Shen Neng 1, a Chinese bulk carrier. Built in 1993 at Sumtomo Heavy Industries Oppama as Bestor ship is 225.00 meters long and has a width of 32.26 meters. Owner is the company Shenzhen Energy Transport Company or its subcontractors China Ocean Shipping Company ( COSCO ). For the technical management of the Tosco - Keymax International Ship Management Company was responsible. Currently the ship sails under the name Jia Yong.
Accident in April 2010
Stranding and Salvage
- 23.101666666667151.64916666667Koordinaten: 23 ° 6 ' 6 " S, 151 ° 38' 57" E
On 3 April 2010, the ship left with a coal load for Bayuquan (China) the port of Gladstone (Australia). Counter 07:05 UTC ( 17:05 local time ) near low water, it ran in calm weather and a draft of 13.4 meters at full speed from the south to the Douglas Shoal Shoal ( min. board depth 8.9 meters) on, is located about 70 kilometers from Great Keppel Iceland and 120 kilometers east of Rockhampton and is part of the Great Barrier Reef. The accident site is located within a designated around the shoal habitat protection zone of the marine reserve. When emergence were rowing, machine and tanks, including a fuel tank, damaged, so that well- expired three tons of oil and an oil film formed, which was destroyed with dispersant and taken to decrease. The two tug Austral Salvor and Tom Tough of the salvage company Svitzer commissioned stabilized the freighter on the position to avoid further Riffschäden by drifting. The accident reduction and salvage ship Pacific Responder oil put a lock so that from 9 April, within about three days the oil could be pumped to the 1,500 tonne capacity tanker Larcom. On April 12 at 09:48 UTC succeeded at high water, in time for aufziehendem strong southeast wind, to make the freighter by blowing compressed air in tanks flooded again buoyant and to retire from the shoal. The Wistari was employed here as a third tractor. Around 11:00 UTC, the freighter was back in open waters and was towed after a short inspection to a 35 nautical miles distant anchorage five miles north-east of Great Keppel Iceland. There significant damage to the ship's bottom were found in the area around the engine room at the rear of the ship by divers. After the ship was towed to delete a portion of the load in the quieter, south to Hervey Bay. On 31 May 2010 the tug De Da ran from the damaged vessel in the direction of China.
Assessment
Between Douglas Shoal and the edge of the south-east lie Capricorn group of islands performs a frequently used, six nautical miles ( 11 km ) wide and 40 meters deep passage between the Riffschutzzonen through the reef to the open sea, which wanted to use the ship is discontinued at the RCC Route plan. The accident location is 5.8 nautical miles ( 10.7 km ) abeam this usual route. The stranding was a good twenty minutes after the course of the ship for the transit of the passage should be changed to the east. The director of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority ( AMSA ) Queensland, Patrick Quirk, described the passage through the passage as not particularly difficult, each sovereign team should be in a position. Numerous first press reports that spoke of an illegal shortcut through the Riffschutzgebiet, proved to be false. To 68,000 tonnes of coal and 975 tons of fuel were on board. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau ( ATSB ) examined the stranding and put on 15 April a preliminary report. Following circumstances that led to the stranding together are called:
- Deactivation of an automatic rate monitoring (due to deviation from the route plan)
- Inadequate tracking of the ship's location on the chart
- Insufficient fatigue management
- Deflection of the watch officer
- Not cover the accident position by the GBR VTS
For the captain and first officer watchkeeping severe penalties are expected.
Environmental damage
In a large area - press releases vary between 250 by 100 meters and three kilometers by up to 250 meters - were corals and vegetation completely destroyed by the emergence and ship movements. The spokesman for the Great Barrier Reef and Conservation Parks Authority, Davidwache box spoke of the largest so far observed on the reef harmful zone after the emergence of a ship. He expects further ecological damage caused by abrasion of toxic anti-fouling paint.
On the beaches of Tryon and Iceland Northwest Iceland, 10 nautical miles south of the accident site, small amounts of smaller oil clumps were found and eliminated.
In March 2009, emerged in the region through the wreck of the Pacific Adventurer oil spills.