Ship “Fairy Bridge” was responsible for large-scale oil spill in Primorye – Moskovsky Komsomolets

oil spill occurred in the waters of Khasan district

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At the southern coast of Primorye in the waters of Khasan District discovered a large-scale oil spill. To check have already joined the prosecutor’s office. According to preliminary data contamination of the surface oil was from the boat “Fairy Bridge”.

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“The prosecuting authorities on post operative services the discovery in the waters of Khasan district of the oil spill are checking” – “Interfax”, the words Senior Assistant Attorney Helen Telegina Primorye. She also said that by checking the connected environmental prosecutor’s office, experts relevant regulatory and law enforcement agencies. They drove to the scene to establish the circumstances of the incident.

At the moment, according to NTV, the area of ​​contamination is 150 to 200 meters. Vice-Governor Alexander Moose said that the information on the oil slick has been received from local residents. He also said that near the site of PE are three ships. According to preliminary data, one of them and dumped oil into the water. As the head of the region Vladimir Miklushevsky, this is the second such case in the last few months. He demanded to take strict measures to prevent similar incidents.

«I have already sent a letter to the Minister of Transport of Russia with a proposal to prohibit the bunkering on the high seas. Now we will consider the option to ban such operations waters of Khasan district, “- said Miklushevsky.

In addition, Miklushevsky asked the lieutenant governor to take over the investigation into the incident, according to a statement on the website of Primorsky Krai Administration.

Later agency “Primamedia” issued a statement of the Group of companies “Transit-DV”. An official investigation into the discovery of contamination on the surface of the sea in the waters off the coast of the Bay Round Khasan district of Primorye Territory showed that surface contamination has occurred on board the ship “Fairy Bridge”, which belongs to the group of companies “Transit-DV”.

The crew spent bilge pumping (technical) water from one tank to another, and this time there was a break hose. Bilge water was supposed to pass on to a specialized ship, however, due to strong emotion, this operation was not done in a timely manner, resulting in the bilge tank filled with helpful and required transfer of surplus to another tank. Immediately after the impulse hose pumping was stopped. In the context of night-time crew did not notice that part of the bilge water got spilled overboard.

As stated in the course of the investigation, taking into account the capacity of the pump, just leaked 830 liters of water engineering. Of these, about 500 liters spread out on the deck in the stern, about 290 liters left in the pan and about 40 liters of spilled overboard.

area of ​​the spot on the sea surface was 50 to 100 meters, the coast is clean.

After detecting spots for spill involved Rescue Service Group “Transit-DV”, created earlier by the company for the implementation of environmental safeguards on the Amur Bay. The cleaning of the surface started at 9 am. In the course of three units used floating equipment, involved 14 people applied liquid and dry sorbents. In addition to the emergency service of the Civil Code “Transit-DV” in the waters of the specialists MOE. By 17.00 pollution completely eliminated.