Friday, May 25, 2012

Lucky BP

If they'd destroyed the Bay of Plenty instead of the Gulf of Mexico, somebody might have been in trouble.
The captain and navigation officer of a ship that caused one of New Zealand's biggest sea pollution disaster when it ploughed into an offshore reef have been sentenced to seven months in prison.

Prosecutors told the Tauranga District Court on Friday that the pair ignored basic navigational practices when they attempted to take a short cut to reach port on October 5 last year.

The Filipino officers were in charge of the Liberian-flagged Rena when it hit the reef last year, releasing an oil slick that killed thousands of sea birds and fouled beaches in the North Island's pristine Bay of Plenty.

  alJazeera

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