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From: WADE DOAK
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Date: 03-09-10
Time: 17:07
Latest 'New Scientist' magazine endorses my concern re potential disaster from oil in 'Niagara' wreck:
OIL FROM SUNKEN TRAWLER VERSUS NIAGARA WRECK http://www.wadedoak.com/_disc1/00001046.htm
"I find it is ironic that concern is being given for potential oil release from the trawler that sank recently out from Dunedin in deep water when nothing has been done about the bunker oil bubbling up from the 'Niagara' wreck in 400 feet off Whangarei. War wrecks in the Solomons have had their oil removed. Technology to do it is well established. Phil Nuyt in California, with his mini subs and Nuyt suits, has the gear and expertise. If the old hull, lying on its side since WW2, releases a mass of oil the environmental cost to the Northland coast and potentially, the precious Poor Knights Islands, all adjacent, will far exceed the value of the gold bars remaining in the wreck.
Keith Gordon tells me her mast and crows nest has now bent over like a fallen tree. He once showed me video he has filmed of it with his ROV: a black coral tree growing from the "truck'; a hapuku like a giant bird perched beside it. This wreck is very accessible to diving nowadays."
I wrote another longer piece, ref below, called 'Black Death on the NZ Coast". It aroused no response. But 'New Scientist' this week shows it is a major concern. OIL SPILLAGE IN NZ: article-Black Death . Wade Doak writes on impacts of oil spills.http://www.wadedoak.com/_disc1/0000102b.htm
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