Author: CLEMENTIA CUNEO Source: THE DAILY TELEGRAPHTHREE weeks after it beached in savage storms, and having already cost $4.2 million, the stricken carrier Pasha Bulker is just five metres closer to returning to sea.
Industry sources estimate it is costing more than $200,000 for each day it stays stranded, which means those five metres have cost the Pasha Bulker’s Japanese owners Fukujin Kisen, or at least its insurance company, $4.2m – or $840,000 a metre.
The Newcastle Port Corporation says forecast weather conditions will help another attempt to refloat the stranded Pasha Bulker freighter tonight.
After being stranded on Newcastle’s Nobbys Beach for more than three weeks, salvage attempts for the bulk carrier were called off yesterday when three cables linking tugboats to the ship came free.
Author: JORDAN BAKER Source: SMH.COM.AU
VALIANT salvage attempts managed to move but failed to free the stranded bulk carrier Pasha Bulker off Nobbys Beach in Newcastle last night.
Efforts were going well until a steel tow cable snapped shortly before high tide about 7pm, dashing hopes that the city could wave goodbye to the vessel by this morning.
Source: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
SALVAGE crews will tonight make their first attempt at refloating the stricken bulk carrier Pasha Bulker, almost three weeks since it became stranded on a New South Wales beach.
Equipment was put in place yesterday, and last-minute preparations made before the critical window of opportunity arrives around 7pm, on a much anticipated high tide at Newcastle.
Authorities have announced an exclusion zone around the Newcastle Harbour and Nobbys Foreshore precinct for the attempted removal of the stranded Pasha Bulker this week. Safety concerns have been cited at the rationale behind te moves to prevent the public viewing the salvage efforts, though some are suggesting it may have more to do with preventing the public see the problems the workers may encounter.
The Newcastle Herald reports today that there is a risk that oil will spill into thesea at Nobbys when the salvage attempt takes place. Oil response teams are on standby and measures had been set to limit environmental damage in the event of a spill.
So who will actually see the refloating of the Pasha, one of the most significant public interest stories in the Hunter’s recent history?
If you manage to capture footage of the salvage efforts, let us know and we will publish them here on Hunter’s Best. After all, Hunters Best is "Citizen Powered Media".
Source: 1233 ABC
The planned refloating of the bulk carrier stranded off Newcastle’s Nobbys beach has been postponed.
Salvage crews were planning to tow the Pasha Bulker out to sea tomorrow evening, but it has being delayed until Thursday night.
New South Wales Ports Minister, Joe Tripodi, says he has been advised the equipment on board is not ready for the high tide expected tomorrow.
Author: GREG GROWDEN Source: RUGBYHEAVEN
Australia’s best known rugby league player, Andrew Johns, yesterday answered an SOS to cure the Wallabies’ kicking woes before Saturday night’s Bledisloe Cup Test at the MCG.
Johns, who came close to crossing codes in 2004, was a surprise arrival at the training session at Xavier College in Melbourne yesterday, where he gave advice to the team’s key kickers.
Source: ABC 1233
The Titans battled right until the full-time siren to clinch a hard-fought 28-22 victory over the Knights at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on Saturday evening.
Meanwhile in Sydney, the Eels capitalised on a 22-point half-time lead to crush the Roosters 36-16 in their round 15 NRL fixture at Aussie Stadium.
Authors: ANTONY SCULLY & SIMONE THURTELL Source: ABC 1233
Newcastle Port Corporation says some of the more interesting theories put forward by the general public on how to move the Pasha Bulker could fill a folder.
And fortunately suggestions to "carve a channel" through the heritage listed Macquarie Pier, to drag the 40,000 tonne bulk carrier into the harbour, has been not been adopted.
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