Report No 15............6th-7th August, 2008..........
Burning / Smoldering Shipwreck at Padang Padang.

Now that the shipwreck has half burnt, the contractor for the you know who are in with the hot knife/oxy to cut up the miles of cooling pipes, the engine and the 2 generators and various other metal objects. Cut out only items left of any value.  

6th..........6.30am...... Mike and Chris arrived on the scene and went down the Padang Padang back beach cliffs and along the beach to the still burning wreck. We quickly surveyed the still burning wreck and departed back up the cliff. After just half an hour Chris and I had a headache from the toxic fumes, the fumes were everywhere.
Thou the resin epoxy had burnt, the fiber glass mat had not burnt so well and was everywhere in small pieces and in clusters of strands for up to 500 meters away toward Ulu's . The toxic smell was reported from Nyang Nyang to Balangan, even thou the winds were light southeast trades.
We tied the remainder of the Rp. 5 million worth of ropes on to the propeller as best we could in an attempt to stop her from moving on the high tide.

By 3 pm, that afternoon the subcontractors arrived and actual put out the fire with sea water, so they could start work on retrieving all things metal.
There were 3 men sitting in amongst a toxic smolder with oxy gear cutting up the metal. They had NO masks or gas filters. How the oxy bottles did not explode is a mystery. The toxic fume must be a sure killer.

After many calls to the Local Government Chris was told that the Government could do nothing and had no control over the Water Police.
Hands up......we were on our own. What a waste of so much time.

7th.............6.30am... We surveyed the smoldering wreck again. This time no flames. We climb on her side.
She was being disemboweled amongst charcoaled fiber glass.
No there was dead sea life everywhere. It appears that the fumes and burning fiberglass had killed off any life that survived the oil/diesel mix from 2 weeks before.

Met the subcontractor for the you know who and discussed his mission. His mission was to cut up and take away all things metal and leave the rest. We asked him to try to hurry up and do his things, so we could organize a final clean up. He said he would, but he missed most of the morning low tide and his staff arrived around 9am..........banker’s hours?

We clean up the burnt ropes and the large pieces of fiber matting.
We really now need to wait until these guys finish and have a final clean up. It could be huge.

Talked with the locals...........they are not happy.

"Mother Nature is sailing toward Eco-Disaster Reef on a Ship named GREED."
An estimated 200-300,000 ships throw their crap over board, EVERDAY.
 
Best...........

Mike O'Leary
International CEO and Founder
R.O.L.E. Foundation Inc
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