Hazard to navigation?
Danish ‘Safety Ship’ OMS Pollux, leaking oil after colliding with Morecambe Bay wind turbine
A SHIP is leaking diesel after crashing into a wind turbine off the coast of Morecambe Bay.
Liverpool Coastguard has been in attendance since just after 9am this morning co-ordinating the recovery of the stricken vessel which collided with part of a turbine at Walney Wind Farm.
OMS Pollux has since been leaking marine gas oil, or diesel.
The Danish-registered vessel, with a crew of around 18 on board, remains afloat and there are no reported injuries.
The coastguard revealed that since hitting the turbine pile it has managed to move under its own power to a location north of the port of Liverpool, taking it away from ‘environmentally sensitive areas’.
h/t to WUWT reader “saveenergy”
Alan Watt,
Size of crew is no indication – there are ships carrying 15,000 tons of liquid cargo with a crew if 15.
Go to http://www.nordicoffshore.com/nordic-offshore-projects/vessels for a picture and details of the vessel.
Don’t know why the link above doesn’t appear in blue – sorry.
Mods?
http://www.nordicoffshore.com/nordic-offshore-projects/vessels
One dot too many.
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@ur momisugly WJohn says: Now, THAT’S funny. Of course I had to spend a good few nights in Brit pubs to “get” it.
The Magna Carta became the bedrock for our Declaration Of Independence. Now that’s ironic. Top that Brit. She said sweetly.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/legacy.html
That ship is luckier than the millions of bats and birds that get killed colliding with windmill blades. Some have suggested that they are eliminating our Whooping Crane population, an endangered species for the past 60 years.
That’s ok, it go’s well with the tailing pond breach out in northern British Columbia. Look at it this way: it gives the economy a boost. Now they can contract out some company to fix the mess and the turbine.
We should have more spills of that nature. God damn petroleum, how else are we going to live.
clearly i’m being sarcastic…
As noted above, there is very little detail in the article. I am no fan of these hideous, inefficient and unreliable windmills, and placing them with little regard for navigation is nuts. But, once installed they don’t move around. Did the ship encounter a tempest and was tossed into a windmill? Was is it a navigational error? A problem like that could have tossed the ship upon the rocks, but perhaps a windmill was in the way?
Just wondering…
Oh that’s wonderful news. I live in a village on the southern tip of Morecambe Bay and it’s bad enough those many off-shore eco-crucifixes (J. Delingpole ™) blight the view but now they’ve proved themselves to be the hazard to navigation on the approach to the very busy port at Heysham that we’ve feared.
I wondered what the unusual activity was when I walked my dog on the beach this morning. Now I know.
Nothing on the local rag’s website about this (The Blackpool Evening Gazette). So far only the Westmorland Gazette has reported it but not in any great detail and the story comes across as derisory; a nothing-to-see-here attribution. As another commenter pointed out, the local (NW Lancashire) hacks slavishly report everything the local anti-frackers do and say yet about the collision with a turbine….crickets.
It was different when the River Dance container vessel ran aground off Anchorsholme (North of Balckpool) a few years ago. The Gazette was all over that story like a rash.
There was no leading www or http.
I expect the environmentalists failed to anticipate this ‘impact.’
The Liverpool fogs are every bit as opaque (and possibly even more frequent) as those of London, albeit less publicized.
Who are the geniuses (genii?) who thought you could put these obstacles out in the water and NOT have them struck by boats?
“It is in fact, the equivalent of being run over by an ambulance coming to your assistance.”
No, it’s more like driving into a parked ambulance whilst going to the shops.
Sounds like the maritime equivalent of a tree crossing the road.
Was anyone on the bridge when this happened? If they did not see some thing that size what chance of seeing any small vessels they might ‘wander’ into?
Skipper was probably in the showers discussing his ‘yardarm’ with the first mate.
Danish ‘Safety Ship’ OMS Pollux… OMS Bollocks, more like.
Oldseadog says:
August 15, 2014 at 6:04 am
If this ship is named the Pollux, inquiring minds want to know if there is a sister ship named the Castor. An offshore industry service vessel named Castor leaking oil in an environmentally sensitive area, that would be funny!.
See here for the mythology origin of these names.
Reblogged this on Cornwall Wind Watch and commented:
the “greens” will have some sort of excuse for this we’re sure. Boats collide with rocks all the time, so what’s your point etc etc
Armagh and Andrew. Without wishing to get into a debate here on the English language, I’m afraid you are both incorrect – and you probably know that you are. The turbines are not out to ‘save the planet’. If they were, then technically it could be situational irony. But it isn’t. Turbines are merely an alternative to fossil fuel in generating electricity. If a ship sent to clean up an oil spill released oil, then that would be ironic. But a tanker colliding with an alternative form of generating power simply is NOT ironic. Irony is always the OPPOSITE of what was intended, not an alternative to, nor a coincidence, or a chance happening. The word, ‘literally’ has recently been adapted to suit modern use (shamefully so, in my opinion). Let’s not watch without comment when words are misused, it degrades the language rather than adding to it.
Pamela. No, using the Magna Carta as a base for your Constitution is not ironic. Sorry, yet another example of an American not understanding the word. No offence intended.
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I found more information about the collision using Google News, search term: walney wind farm. There is a good write up in the NW News (url 3 lines long; find it on the first page of the search, along with other stories).
The British sense of the word irony leaves us Brits with only the problem of finding an American with a sense of irony. American use of the word is more problematic since, on the face of it, it is quasi-heterological (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling%E2%80%93Nelson_paradox) – that is to say, if it something is ironic (in America), it is by definition not ironical. I am reluctant to infer the other way, that something said (in America) that is said or written with a straight face, is or must in fact be ironical. (Albeit my reluctance decreases with every year I spend on the internet).
Ghost of Big Jim said:
“The turbines are not out to ‘save the planet’.”
Of course they’re not. You employing metonymy when it’s not the context of the discussion. Turbines (and other inanimate objects) do not have intentions.
But the people who put the turbines there thought they were saving the planet. I’m sure they didn’t intend these turbines to be the cause of environmentally threatening oil spills.
Ironic isn’t it?
The Ghost Of Big Jim Cooley says:
August 15, 2014 at 4:31 am
It isn’t irony (sorry to be pedantic). Irony is when the opposite occurs of something intended. ‘Situational irony’ is much misunderstood, and (sorry to say this) but Americans not only over-use the word, but get it wrong EVERY time (drives us Brits mad). The brilliant comedy TV series, Frasier, often got it so wrong that it became embarrassing. Always remember; It’s not ironic if you get run over by an ambulance, but it IS ironic if you get run over by an ambulance coming to your assistance.
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I have to disagree with you, I would consider being hit by an ambulance something designed to help people to be ironic even if it wasn’t coming to save you.
Well I think there’s an enormous streak of hipocrisy with the Gores et-al private-jetting around the globe.
Or is it hypocrisy?..Or hypocrysy?…
Well I’m going with my first version….Don’t care…
I did wonder about these hazards. I was crossing the English Channel last week, and we came very close to some windelecs (turbines). We were in calm daylight conditions, so no problem, but in rough weather at night the story might be different.
Ralph
You mods are going to snip what I would like to do to wind turbines so I’m not going to write it. I will say my desire involves civil disobedience.
[This is true. Civil disobedience, unlawful behavior, and just plan old awful behavior are not permitted. .mod]
I hope the 2 Nuclear power stations on the coast At Heysham, a small suburb of Morecambe are ok… erm… No… one was shut down last week after cracks were discovered in the boiler support struts.