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Newcastle’s big pal is on the move:

The Pasha Bulker has moved significantly with three hours still to go before the peak of tonight’s high tide.

The ship has now been moved such that it is almost parallel with the beach after it was stuck at a right angle - bow first - to the beach.

Salvage crews are hoping the 8.54pm (AEST), 1.9m tide will allow three tug boats to pull the ship from Newcastle’s Nobbys Beach.

Earlier, the Bulker unleashed an oil assault:

“I have been advised that a sheen of oil a micron thick, which is 0.001 of a millimetre, was observed on the surface of the water at the stern of the ship,’’ NSW Ports Minister Mr Tripodi told reporters in Newcastle today.

A team of sixty oil spill experts was called in to deal with the massive slick.

UPDATE. BulkerVision.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/01/2007 at 06:53 AM

  1. umm…Ok. I’m confused. If it was bow first into the mud, why couldn’t it have been towed off by the stern?

    If it’s move broadside to the coast, isn’t there danger of it being pushed harder aground by the waves?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 07:00 AM • permalink

  2. Meanwhile, on the other side of the sand dune…

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 01 at 07:05 AM • permalink

  3. Me thinks they meant Sexy Oil Spill Experts - or something like this.

    (Not safe for work)

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 01 at 07:13 AM • permalink

  4. Pasha cam

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 01 at 07:14 AM • permalink

  5. #4 Blast you, Margos. I had just gone back to Bulker Cam…

    That’ll learn me for being so slow.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 01 at 07:29 AM • permalink

  6. The Newcastle Port Corporation might like to consider amending it’s website.

    It still has a chequered history of shipwrecks after all.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 01 at 07:35 AM • permalink

  7. Pasha/bulker cam is kinda slow - it’s a bit like webdiary when they had those syndicated articles and before Margo came back.

    Speaking of webdiary - Alex Downer is a…oh it’s too disgusting for words.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 01 at 07:43 AM • permalink

  8. Look, can someone clever tell me what the volume of oil is that would disperse across 75m of ocean and be a poofteenth (micron) thick? About a litre? Two? And wouldn’t a quick squirt of Trix dishwashing liquid fix the problem?

    Posted by CB on 2007 07 01 at 08:00 AM • permalink

  9. Sixty men in overalls with rags in the back pocket observed on the beach asking passers by if they can check their oil.

    Posted by CO² max on 2007 07 01 at 08:08 AM • permalink

  10. An oil spill.  I knew it.  This is a complete unmitigated disaster.  When will we stop transporting coal???  <emits primal groans>...

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 07 01 at 08:09 AM • permalink

  11. #7 Margos, did you check this out over there? Look at the signatories on the letter to JWH “The dissident view on Howard’s martial law plan”.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 01 at 08:13 AM • permalink

  12. Retreat, retreat.

    It’s an OIL assault, for fuck’s sake!

    Posted by Mike_W on 2007 07 01 at 08:15 AM • permalink

  13. #11, and scroll down to this

    The problem with martial law not enough marshalls

    aiiieeee.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 01 at 08:19 AM • permalink

  14. O/T but this is good.

    Mark Steyn: Impudent Citizens Got Sen. Lotthorn’s Goat

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 08:36 AM • permalink

  15. #8: Golly, CB, a faint shimmer a poofteenth of a mil thick is still a slick. Our courageous State Labor Minister for Sea-going Safety and Oceanic Harmony is taking no chances with this maritime challenge. Building more port facilities to move more coal can take a back seat for now… this is a delicate operation. Whales swim by those waters at this time of year!

    This is Patrice Newell’s environmentally pristine Hunter region, after all. And hell, who knows, at any time her partner Phatty might want to take a mid-winter dip!

    A little Trix would do the trick, sure, but that wouldn’t attract the sort of media coverage needed in this desperate, globule warming-related crisis that Joe Triopodi truly deserves.

    Posted by splice on 2007 07 01 at 08:54 AM • permalink

  16. #15 - that Tripodi is one slick operator, he needs all the meeja coverage he can get.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 07 01 at 09:05 AM • permalink

  17. Why don’t they just wait for the oceans to rise 100 metres, as Tim Flannery predicts and move the ship then?

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 07 01 at 09:23 AM • permalink

  18. #17 Dan Lewis:But isn’t that , like, ten years away? Or something?

    Posted by SandiM on 2007 07 01 at 10:21 AM • permalink

  19. It’s alive…ALIVE i tell you..BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

    Look egor the beast is stiring….

    Master, the beast is hurt, its leaking..

    EGOR,GET OUT OF THE WATER, WE WILL NEVER GET THE SMELL OUT OF THE FISH.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 07 01 at 10:22 AM • permalink

  20. #2: Hilarious!

    Posted by paco on 2007 07 01 at 10:34 AM • permalink

  21. A team of sixty oil spill experts was called in to deal with the massive slick.

    How about trying one guy with an oil skimmer?

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 07 01 at 11:12 AM • permalink

  22. Too practical. Sixty “experts” is better for conveying the “we’re all gonna die!” scenario.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 07 01 at 12:16 PM • permalink

  23. That oil probably came from the bilge of some boater sight seeing around.  Damn eco-tourists!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 01 at 03:59 PM • permalink

  24. #23, I was thinking the same thing, JeffS!  I used to see the same thing behind my dad’s old fishing boat.  Made pretty rainbow colors in the water.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 07 01 at 04:11 PM • permalink

  25. Right now there’s a glorious sunrise behind the Bulker, real postcard stuff. Reminds me of an old favourite - a sunset beneath the elevated Alaskan oil pipeline.

    Posted by JAFA on 2007 07 01 at 05:13 PM • permalink

  26. Is that Newcastle Brown Oil, then?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 01 at 05:18 PM • permalink

  27. #11. I’d love to know what all those signatories have been doing for the last umpteen years.

    Apart from dialoguing, that is.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 07 01 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  28. #27

    And demanding inquiries.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 01 at 07:21 PM • permalink

  29. You are going to be so glad you followed this link.

    Posted by cridland on 2007 07 01 at 08:27 PM • permalink

  30. #29, cridland:

    That was funny.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 11:02 PM • permalink

  31. .

      ::::::::::  iii ::::::::::

    For Sale “Joe Tripodi’s snapped Pasha Bulkers’ Tugboats” by 1.618 For Sale $45,900

    or a pair of tugged and pulled eyebrows $3.66

    (The middle bit needs waxing)

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 07 01 at 11:35 PM • permalink

  32. #31

    (The middle bit needs waxing)

    LOL, I see that.

    Posted by kae on 2007 07 01 at 11:42 PM • permalink

  33. #22 Indeed. Makes better nullvideo.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 02 at 12:03 AM • permalink

  34. Great! Here’s some photos of the salvage as well as the past 2 week’s efforts.

    Pasha Bulker Slideshow

    Enjoy.

    Posted by gcaptain on 2007 07 02 at 10:01 AM • permalink

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