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Friday, September 30, 2005
Bloglines - Three Injured In New Melones Boating Accident
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Bloglines - Probation in boating death case
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Bloglines - Cause of Deadly Boating Accident Unknown
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Bloglines - 3 Sumter men ID'd in Seneca boating wreck
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Bloglines - Boater Arrested After Woman Injured In Crash
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Bloglines - Bodies Found After Boating Accident
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Bloglines - Two women rescued, two men missing after Greene boating accident
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Bloglines - Two Men Missing After Boating Accident
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Bloglines - Safety on the Water
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Bloglines - Body found in Eagle Creek reservoir
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Bloglines - Fatal Boating Accident
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Bloglines - Reward for Morris man missing in Fla. posted
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Monday, September 26, 2005
In September 1979, the Chevron Hawaii exploded in the Houston Ship Channel. The ship was rebuilt as the Arco Texas.
Smith Mountain Lake - Boating Accident - Mark Detournillon
Lake residents float new safety regulations
Victor Reklaitis
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September 6, 2005
MONETA - A few days before a public forum on boating safety, a speed limit for Smith Mountain Lake and licenses for boaters are some of the ideas getting tossed around by lake residents.
Some are also calling for a ban on high-performance boats like the one involved in an Aug. 20 accident that killed a Moneta couple.
“There are about 20,000 full-time residents who live on or near Smith Mountain Lake, and there are about 20,000 different ideas about how the lake could be made safer for boating,” said one official, Ralph Brush, as he announced the forum last week.
“Right now, they are very angry and they want action.”
The forum, slated for 6 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Ecumenical Parish, will come less than three weeks after the recent wreck.
On Aug. 20, a 38-foot Donzi performance boat plowed over the couple’s cabin cruiser at about 60 miles per hour.
The Donzi’s owner, Mark F. Detournillon, 45, of Moneta, told authorities he had taken several medications and drank a glass of wine, according to a search warrant affidavit. He faces two charges of involuntary manslaughter.
“It’s not just the high-powered boats,” said one lake resident, Dee Dee Bondurant. “Speed - period - is an issue.”
She said “muscle boats” shouldn’t be singled out, since Jet Skis and bass boats also can travel at speeds of more than 60 miles per hour.
But Bondurant, the co-founder of a women’s group called the She-Doos that emphasizes the safe use of Jet Skis and Sea-Doos, said she’s not sure what would be a suitable speed limit or if it could be enforced.
Other lake communities across the United States have implemented or are considering speed limits.
On Lake George in upstate New York, the daytime speed limit is 45 miles per hour, and the nighttime speed limit is 25 miles per hour. Lake George covers about 28,000 acres, while Smith Mountain Lake covers about 22,000.
There are no-wake zones at Smith Mountain Lake and age limits for using Jet Skis, but there are no posted speed limits and no boating licenses. In the past three years, it has been the site of at least 20 percent of Virginia’s boating accidents, and it’s often called Virginia’s most dangerous body of water.
Another lake resident with suggestions is Bob Moran, a volunteer firefighter who responded to the Aug. 20 accident.
“Do we need these big boats on the lake?” he asked of high-performance boats, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and are often criticized for being too loud or too fast.
He said responding to the wreck left him upset and wondering, “Did he have to go that fast?” and “Did this really have to happen?”
Moran said he has thought about horsepower limits as well as speed limits, and banning Jet Skis as well as high-performance boats.
“There’s so many possibilities. It’s just a matter of what can be done,” he said.
While 21 Jet Skis and other personal watercraft (PWCs) have been involved in the 75 reported accidents on Smith Mountain Lake since 2003, it’s unclear how many of the accidents have involved high-performance boats.
In accident reports, performance boats are put in a kind of catchall category - “open watercraft” - that includes runabouts and bass boats. That’s according to Capt. Ron Henry of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF).
Henry said 18 of the 75 reported accidents since 2003 have been at night. In addition, 2003 had one fatal accident on Smith Mountain Lake, while 2004 and this year have each had three boating deaths.
Other proposals for making the lake safer for boating include improving the existing boater education programs and giving DGIF more money and greater flexibility.
This summer, wardens have struggled with a new law that provided no additional resources, but required at least one warden to patrol Smith Mountain Lake daily from sunrise to sunset.
Some people at Smith Mountain Lake don’t see a need for speed limits, boating licenses or other new measures.
“I really think it was an isolated incident,” Lee Fusco said of the recent wreck. He lives in Northampton, Penn., but spends many weekends at his home on the lake.
He said, “Basically, people have to use common sense. I don’t see where rules or laws or restrictions are going to do anything.”
Fusco, the owner of a 28-foot Donzi high-performance boat, said his goal is to be as safe as possible, and he doesn’t boat at night.
While performance boats are taking a lot of heat, he argued that, “It’s not the boat that gives you the trouble. It’s the person driving it.”
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Bloglines - Body of Boater Found In Water (The Ledger)
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Bloglines - Boater disappears in lake (Orlando Sentinel)
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Bloglines - Keep life jacket handy
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Bloglines - Charges laid in boating death of Stayner woman
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Friday, September 23, 2005
Bloglines - Samuel Goldwyn
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Bloglines - Siberian ship tragedy death toll rises to 13 (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
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Bloglines - Boating Safety
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Floating Island Barge
Just like any other barge, only this one has bark and leaves
By Nicole DavisBob Henry has tugged a few odd things in his time: an inflatable rubber doll promoting a Stevie Van Zandt concert on Randall’s Island; fuel rods from a decommissioned nuclear power plant. But Robert Smithson’s “Floating Island” is by far the most beautiful barge of the tugboat captain’s career. “It’s a very small version of Central Park,” he said of the floating work of art currently circling around Manhattan. He’s not kidding. Inside the 30 x 90 foot plot of land are schist rocks borrowed from Central Park, the very ones that form the bedrock of Manhattan, and the kind the late Robert Smithson would have probably wanted on his moving earthwork. Conceived in 1970, “Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island” was finally realized in time for the current retrospective of Smithson’s work at the Whitney Museum, and will wend its way around the city from 8 AM to 8 PM until Sunday the 24th. For the tugboat captain, it’s just another load, not unlike the lumber he tugs to maritime construction firms, “only this one has leaves and bark.” To other observers unfamiliar with Smithson’s work, like security guard Yvenson Saintil, who works the Coast Guard parking lot near Battery Park, it doesn’t even resemble a living thing. “I thought it was trash,” Saintil said. If only Smithson were around to explain its intent. The artist died in a plane crash at the age of 35, but before his untimely death he helped pioneer a brave new field of art—one that used the field as its canvas. Works like Michael Heizer’s “Double Negative,” a spectacular hole dug out of a Nevada mesa, and Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” a coil of basalt rocks assembled in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, manhandled nature in such a way that the art itself became a physical place. That these “earthworks” didn’t stay put was just as significant to Smithson, who was fixated on the notion of entropy and the impermanence of things.It’s possible that the muse for Smithson’s massive undertakings was the landscape architect behind Central Park. In an essay Smithson wrote five months before the 1973 plane crash, he calls Frederick Law Olmstead the world’s first true earth artist. A hundred years before works like Spiral Jetty created something unique and interactive from static landscapes, Olmstead eschewed the vision of Central Park as a fixed, formal garden and made it a place where people, nature, even traffic could coexist. Smithson praised Olmstead for reclaiming land jeopardized by urban growth, and turning it into a thing of beauty. “My own experience,” wrote Smithson, “is that the best sites for ‘earth art’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature’s own devastation.” The earthworks artist lived very close to one such tableau. He and his widow, artist Nancy Holt, used to take walks along the Hudson River when they lived together in New York, and Holt says those strolls got Smithson thinking about his maritime opus. Curators of the exhibit and those who manage his estate believe the idea falls in line with his penchant for “displacement.” Smithson had “displaced” nature once before by bringing it inside the white walls of a gallery, so it stands to reason this was his way of displacing nature yet again, only instead of taking the flora inside, he plucked them from their normal domain, attached it to a symbol of industry of New York’s working harbor, and set in orbit around the city. Smithson made one detailed sketch of this vision, but he hit a wall when it came to financing and finding permits for the project. “New York was a different world then,” Holt said on September 16, the day the island made its debut at the Hudson River Park’s Pier 46. “Think about the Gates—it took 20 years for that to happen.”Smithson’s island took 30 years, and about two million less to create. A year before his current retrospective went up at the Whitney, curator Chrissy Isles tapped a woman familiar with creating ambitious, large-scale projects, Diane Shamash of the Minetta Brook arts organization, to help her pick up where Smithson left off. Together they began walking the waterfront too, envisioning the logistics of tugging a 150-ton island around the city. They met with tugboat captains, even watched a dozen tugs race in the “Tugboat Challenge” off Staten Island. “It’s really quite a community,” said Shamash, a petite woman who keeps her short, chestnut hair cinched in a ponytail.Ultimately, Shamash amassed a team of 20 to help translate the sketch Smithson left of his fantasy island. (Aside from a notes specifying a willow tree, the other plants were left open to interpretation so long as they were native to New York.) Jon Rubin, a filmmaker and performance artist who screens movies on a barge called “Floating Cinema,” was the most experienced person to handle the logistics of hiring the tugboat operator. “This was my first time acting as a project manager,” said Rubin, who helped oversee the four-month, $200,000 construction of the island. “I’m not sure if I’ll ever do something like this again. But I’m proud of how it turned out.”He continued managing from behind the scenes last Friday, before the tug made its inaugural run around Manhattan on Saturday the 17th. As Holt, Shamash, and various others made their introductory remarks about the project’s genesis and completion, Rubin paced in the back of the crowd, speaking in hushed tones to Bob Henry via cell phone.“Can you pull it back so that it’s centered?” he asked the tugboat captain, as the island began to drift during Holt’s remarks. Smithson’s widow, a white-haired woman who now lives in New Mexico, was reminiscing about the time she and Smithson spent in the city.“Bob and I used to live on West 12th and Greenwich Street, not far from here,” she said wistfully. “I used to look out the window to where we’re standing, where this island is now floating.” Behind her, the wind and currents made the island bob and drift “like a bad puppy on a leash,” said Henry. Smithson, who appreciated nature’s tendency toward disorder, would have been pleased at how his art was behaving.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Bloglines - Search on for two missing boaters
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Bloglines - Roseville Man Presumed Drowned At Tahoe
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Bloglines - KBI review of boating death could take six weeks, official says
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Bloglines - A greener marine environment
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Bloglines - Boaters Are Reminded Of Water Safety Precautions
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Bloglines - Man missing after Tahoe boating accident
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Bloglines - Injured teen shares survival story (Reg Req'd)
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Bloglines - One Dead and Two Missing in Boating Accident at Winchester Bay
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Bloglines - Man Presumed Drowned In Tahoe Boating Accident
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Monday, September 19, 2005
Bloglines - Boaties to get alcohol safety reminder
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Bloglines - Man dies in boating accident
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Bloglines - 2 students drown in a Cotabato lake
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Saturday, September 17, 2005
Bloglines - Inflatable Life Jackets (Gadling)
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Bloglines - Woman faces charge of 'BUI' after boat accident on river (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
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Bloglines - Melee after charges tossed
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Bloglines - Boating Safety
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Friday, September 16, 2005
Bloglines - 10,000 tonnes of coal hit by fire on cargo ship (EveningTimes Online)
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Bloglines - Seven people rescued from sunken ship in Siberia (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
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Bloglines - 'DRUNK BOATING' FRACAS (New York Post)
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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Bloglines - Boating Safety
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Bloglines - Coast Guard ramps up security with M-60 machine guns (Reg Req'd)
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Bloglines - Questions over intoxication central to fatal boating case
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Bloglines - Three-Year-Old Found
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Bloglines - Boater DUI Charges Dropped for L.I. Man
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Bloglines - Scuffle breaks out after charge dropped in boating crash
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Bloglines - 2 years after their son was killed in boating collision, parents struggling to find justice
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Monday, September 12, 2005
Boat Kills Snorkler
Boat kills snorkler
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Hollywood, Florida - Investigators are searching for the boater who struck and killed a snorkeler in the waters off Hollywood. Ghaleb Tayfour of Sunrise had been snorkeling with a friend Saturday night. Authorities say a 25- to 30-foot white motorboat collided with the 26-year-old as he surfaced, and kept going. Tayfour died of his injuries. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a divers-down flag was found in the area, but it's not known if it was being used properly. Under Florida law, vessels must stay at least 100 feet away from a divers-down flag in rivers, inlets or navigation channels.The legal distance is 300 feet in waters outside those areas. Family members say Tayfour was close to completing his master's degree in biology at Florida Atlantic University.
The Associated Press & Tampa Bay's 10 News
Brosnahan / Nearman / Okoboji - Intoxication Central Question??
Questions over intoxication central to fatal Okboji boating accident that killed Michael Brosnahan.
Tugboats and Katrina...how did they miss this one??
Tugboats and Katrina By Tom Segel (09/10/05) Harlingen, Texas, September 10, 2005: You need to look long and hard if you are attempting to find any information about the use of tugboats, towboats or barges in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. In fact, the only reference to these watercraft noted was in a September 1, 2005 Reuters pool release. It stated “A tugboat pushes barges past an oil refinery in southern Louisiana. Rotting bodies littered New Orleans’ streets on Thursday and troops headed in to control looting and violence, as thousands of desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina pleaded to be evacuated from the flooded city, or even just fed.” All too often the media is charged with slanting its coverage or placing emphasis on the wrong elements of a story. The media is even guiltier of failing to follow up on news elements, or examining them in any depth. One could say those who report for both the print and electronic media are often guilty of the sin of omission.Reuters was at the very edge of a significant story when it noted a tugboat working its way down the Mississippi River. In the same paragraph it wrote about survivors pleading for evacuation. What it did not do was examine what was happening with all those towboats and tugboats moving past the hurricane damage.“Like most of the world I watched the unfolding of the hurricane tragedy”, says Terry T. Brady of Alaska. He continues, saying “As a former licensed tugboat captain on the Yukon River, I kept watching for the arrival from upriver, of a fleet of towboats and barges bringing supplies into New Orleans and taking people out. I never saw anything moving on the water.”This so concerned Brady that he contacted Michael Titone, President of the Mississippi River Maritime Association who was on the scene in the disaster area. What he learned was neither FEMA nor Homeland Security had ever included in their contingency plans any national emergency provision to utilize the huge tugboat, towboat and barge fleet that operates on our inland waterways.Those waterways contain a fleet of more than 4,000 tugboats and towboats. In addition, there are more than 27,000 barges and combine they move nearly 800 million tons of raw materials and finished goods each year.Our largest waterway system and the one with the most boats is the Mighty Mississippi. The barges, which are either towed or pushed, each have a capacity 15 times greater than one railroad car and 60 times greater than one semi truck trailer. That huge capacity could have been utilized to move everyone in New Orleans out of harms way. This is an important story the media missed.Says Mr. Titone, “Contingency planning was deficient in my opinion, then the massive loss of power, and almost all phone contact within the 504 and 985 area codes made after the fact coordination with private entities almost impossible.”He further adds, “If a good table top exercise would have been conducted that took this possibility seriously, private companies upriver could have had standing orders to start provisioning and moving south when weather permitted.”Hearing this, Brady sought the assistance of Dan Hubbell, who edits an electronic newsletter for the towboat industry. Hubbell attempted to explain how the relif operation could use the assistance of industry watercraft. He talked to two Coast Guard officials, two New Orleans city council members a woman on the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and even a reporter. He also posted the information on his Wheelhouse Report site. Every word fell on deaf ears.Brady also sent messages to Alaska’s lone congressman Donald E. Young. Young is currently Chairman of the House Transportation committee and soon to be Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “Young and I go way back, as young bucks we both worked freight and passenger vessels on the Yukon River and he held the same license as I. He has not responded as of yet, but that is understandable.”Not all tugboats were idle. American Electric Power did use its boats in an effort to help evacuate New Orleans. Tugboats from its river operations unit ferried evacuees from the flooded city to dry locations on the opposite side of the Mississippi River. They even put out a press release on their efforts, which has received very little attention. So there is the sin of omission. Granted it was not only the failure of the media to follow up on a significant story, but also the failure of everyone to act upon the offer for assistance or to utilize the hundreds of boats only a cry for help away.One final note to this story, almost after the fact…. On September 10, as I put the finishing touches to my copy, Fox News Channel carried an Alert that FEMA leadership was planning to utilize the resources on the Mississippi River.
Ed: Views are those of individual authors and not necessarily those of American Daily
http://www.americandaily.com/article/9206
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Bloglines - County man dies in Grand Lake boating accident; others injured
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Bloglines - Tahoe boaters upset about proposed rules
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Bloglines - Boating
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Bloglines - County man dies in Grand Lake boating accident; others injured
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Bloglines - Mexican officials to probe canal death (Reg Req'd)
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Bloglines - County man dies in Grand Lake boating accident; others injured
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Sunday, September 04, 2005
Bloglines - MLA Hurricane Katrina Message Boards
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Bloglines - Crew Members Rejoin Cruise Ship (Los Angeles Times)
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Bloglines - Cruise ship becomes shelter (Montgomery Independent)
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Bloglines - Three killed by toxic gas on cruise ship in LA port identified (KESQ)
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Bloglines - Sailing death investigation turns up few clues
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Bloglines - Coast Guard encourages boater safety during holiday weekend
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Bloglines - Boater's paradise or peril?: Risks rise as state's rivers and lakes fill with people
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Bloglines - Has the lake become unsafe at any speed?
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Bloglines - Two people are killed in a boating accident on Grand Lake...
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
Noxious Gas Kills Cruise Ship Crew
Friday, September 02, 2005
Noxious Gas Kills 3 on Cruise Ship
On Friday, September 02, 2005, nineteen companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, eighteen LAFD Rescue Ambulances, two Hazardous Materials Task Forces, three Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, one Assistant Chief Officer, and various LAFD support and investigative resources, under the direction of Deputy Chief Mario Rueda, responded to Berth 93A in San Pedro, to the “Monarch of the Seas” Cruise Ship.The first Company arrived quickly to reports of as many as 5 patients “down”. Further investigation revealed an unknown gas overcame several members of the ship’s crew, while conducting routine maintenance to the propeller shaft on the starboard side of the ship.During the maintenance operation, a large portion of pipe was removed which was responsible for releasing a gas, later determined to be Hydrogen Sulfide. Hydrogen Sulfide is a colorless gas with an offensive stench, similar to rotten eggs. It is considered to be extremely hazardous with a density 18% greater than air.Two patients were initially reported to be in cardiac arrest, and a third was later confirmed, bringing the death total to 3 fatalities. Approximately 20 additional crewmembers, out of the 850 present, were affected. All 20, consisting of 19 men and 1 woman, were treated on scene and transported to local hospitals. Among them 2 ship Physicians and 1 nurse. There were 2500 passengers on board the ship at the time of the incident, none of which were effected by the noxious fumes. All passengers were systematically assisted in their departure of the ship in a safe and orderly fashion. Several local and state agencies were called to the scene including the Coast Guard, Coroner, County Health, Port Police, Customs and LAPD to assist with the unfortunate circumstances. Submitted by Melissa Kelley, SpokewomanLos Angeles Fire Department
# posted by LAFD Media and Public Relations : 9/02/2005 03:04:00 PM
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Gas Leak Kills Three Crew on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship
Gas Leak Kills Three Crew Members on Cruise
Friday, September 02, 2005
LOS ANGELES — A methane gas leak aboard a cruise ship killed three crew members and injured 10 others as passengers got off the ship after their return from Mexico, authorities said.
No passengers were harmed in the accident Friday at Port of Los Angeles.
The injured crew members from the Monarch of the Seas (search) were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, fire spokesman Lou Roupoli told reporters.
A statement from the Royal Caribbean (search) cruise line said that five crew members were taken to hospitals and all were in good condition.
The discrepancy was not immediately explained.
The accident occurred after the ship returned from a cruise with about 2,500 passengers and 850 crew members aboard, Roupoli said. The ship makes regular trips down Mexico's Pacific coast.
Royal Caribbean said crew members were replacing a section of pipe connected to the ship's sewage system. The broken line spilled about five gallons of raw sewage and an unknown amount of methane gas in a propeller shaft tunnel, Roupoli said.
Royal Caribbean said the Coast Guard and local authorities were immediately notified and that the cruise line will fully assist in the investigation.
Passenger Yvonne Powers of Sacramento said she was about to disembark with her daughter when she saw men in hazardous-materials protective gear going downstairs.
"Nobody said anything to us," Powers said.
Later, after they had left the ship, there was a public address announcement that there had been a mishap and that "we've got it under control," she said.
The Monarch of the Seas was scheduled to depart later Friday on a cruise to the Mexican port of Ensenada.
The 14-year-old Monarch is based in Los Angeles harbor. Registered in the Bahamas, it and can carry up to 2,744 passengers and 856 crew, according to the company's Web site.
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Bloglines - Gas Leak on Cruise Ship in L.A. Harbor Kills 3 (Los Angeles Times)
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Bloglines - Crew Members Killed By Haz Mat Exposure On Cruise Ship (NBC 4 Los Angeles)
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Friday, September 02, 2005
Bloglines - Busy boating weekend expected
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Bloglines - Labor Day Weekend Operation S.E.A.S.P.R.A.Y.
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Bloglines - High gas prices make boating over holiday weekend an expensive proposition
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Bloglines - Battery operated radio systems aid Katrina relief efforts (FCW.com)
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Bloglines - Red tide is not dead (Bradenton Herald)
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Bloglines - The A to Z of GPS
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Bloglines - Local rafter's remains found in Idaho wilderness
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