Bruce English is a Senior Response Officer with the Marine Environmental Hazards Response team. He says they managed to fly over in a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter yesterday a couple of times and there is no leakage from the ship, which remains in an upright position.
The Canadian Coast Guard has established a 2 nautical mile emergency zone around a site where a container ship ran aground in Wild Cove just west of Lark Harbour. Bad weather and sea conditions along with a power outage Saturday morning led to a large vessel ending up in an area known as Cedar Cove. All 20 crew were safely rescued by a cormorant helicopter. Bruce English is a Senior Response Officer with the Marine Environmental Hazards Response team. He says they managed to fly over in a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter yesterday a couple of times and there is no leakage from the ship, which remains in an upright position. English says the bad weather and sea conditions are preventing them from any on water work to be able to place a containment boom around it.
The ship’s owner is actively involved working through Eastern Canada Response Corporation and have representatives on site. English says they’ve set up a command post at the Search and Rescue base in Lark Harbour and are in the early stages of this response. He says the owner has also hired a salvage company to help with the ship’s removal and hopefully today they can get inside the vessel to conduct sound wave testing and come up with a plan to remove the 207 metre vessel, which is sitting on the coastline. English says once they get these people onboard they will have a better picture of what they’re dealing with.
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