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This story is in my area and I am so worried for the wildlife and the impact that this will have on the coastline where I live. Hundreds of birds have already been affected with the pollution, although most news reports are keeping that low key.
I may try and get to Branscombe to get some photos in the next couple of days.

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Its goign to have a huge effect on the local wildlife - apparentyl they are expecting it to come as far round as home.

Donrt understand why those tyre wall things that they use for fires wont help??
 
Yet all most of the vultures are interested in is bundling on the beach to swipe as many packs of freebie nappies as they can..... <_<
 
They could put plastic booms around the ship, I'd have thought, to contain the flow.

We had a dreadful time in the Gulf during the war, and I joined some work colleagues and British Army lads in helping to wash oiled sea birds which had suffered in unknown thousands. The only stuff which really does the trick is, believe it or not, Fairy Liquid. They got a couple of good washes with it, rinsed and towelled, and then allowed to get their feather oil back by keeping them in cages. There was a reasonably good survival rate if they hadn't eaten too much oil, which they did if they'd tried preening. The leatherback turtles brought in oiled survived very well after cleaning, since they don't groom themselves. Any creature which tries to groom the oil off is in likely to be in trouble.

Unfortunately, it's not the oiling on the body which kills the birds, it's the stuff which gets into their gut and clogs it up. I saw some of the anatomised innards, and the oil just sits there like a thick mass.
 
Tomorrow will hold a different scene. The police will be securing the beach along with its owners The National Trust.
Unfortunately there are a number of small beaches that are not accessible unless by boat. The birds there are covered in oil.
 
thats the things Kri - I thought there was something!!

I wouldnt wanmt the nappies - accordin to the local news = a couple of the carriers have BMW motorbikes in.... :ph34r:
 
The only upside is that it's not the breeding season with hatchlings. It'll be very, very upsetting, I'm afraid, but if the oil is sucked up and contained as quickly as possible, the damage could be short-lived. The fact that the ship's inshore and beached will help, rather than being miles out to sea where it could spread a huge slick like the awful Torrey Canyon disaster in the 1960s.
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Jan 22 2007, 07:52 PM
Yet all most of the vultures are interested in is bundling on the beach to swipe as many packs of freebie nappies as they can..... <_<
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Least they'll be able to tell if Huggies really are "water tight"
 
:lol: :lol: Very good, Martin!

I see a couple have made off with £15K BMW motorbikes. But how do you get them registered if you've got no bill of sale receipted? :brows:
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jan 23 2007, 01:25 AM
:lol: :lol: Very good, Martin!

I see a couple have made off with £15K BMW motorbikes. But how do you get them registered if you've got no bill of sale receipted? :brows:
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My local news has stated that at least 100 bikes have been stolen.
 
It really makes you feel proud doesn't it? Along the lines of 'sightseers' trying to get into Lockerbie and clogging the roads for emergency vehicles. :angy:
 
It's very tempting, isn't it, Colin? If you have a baby and there's a year's supply of Pampers bowling around - and it's pretty darn likely they'll never be sold as they're presumably now damaged stock, then yes, I would imagine I'd be down there with a trailer! And if you're a young bloke and see a cluster of gleaming BMW bikes, again possibly difficult now to sell retail as they may be salt-damaged, then... to me, I don't see a problem since there are going to be insurance claims whacked in for everything. It's not as if the folks were wreckers.

I liked the shot of the young guy arguing with the stoic Police - "You're going to give me a form to fill in, to say I'm taking the stuff? And then when I give you the form, you take the stuff off me? Come on, mate!"

I don't see it anywhere near like Lockerbie, though - it's not a human tragedy with the loss of hundreds of lives. It's just some material loss, and I don't see grabbing a bag of nappies the same as trying to eyeball body parts.
 
Possible contaminated nappies.....people getting in the way of people trying to do their job and protect said people from possible hazardous materials being washed ashore, never mind the environmental side effects. Not on the scale of Lockerbie maybe but doesn't exactly warm the cockles of my heart.
 
There's a very quick answer, isn't there? Bring in the Army if the Police can't cope, secure the site, post the guards, and repel the looters. Clearly, the first thought was to secure the vessel and prevent it drifting out to sea and causing immense damage to the environment and shipping, not protecting a few insured containersworth of poopie-pants! Looting - or rather, 'informal coastal salvage' - is a part of seaside life, Etta - most of Devon and Cornwall's is mined with smugglers' caves where they and looters stashed the stuff.
 
Well, send in the Marines, then! It's a seaborne incident, so they'd love practising charging ashore in their rubber dinghies, I'd have thought, especially under full cover of night, frightening the bejaysus out of those naughty nickers.
 
My local news reports that todays activities are far worse then yesterdays. Hundreds of beach combers have invaded the beach and the small village of Branscombe has become clogged with traffic. Something has to be done about this.
 
God, that car park owner in Branscombe will be coining it! As will the local pub - probably consider it the best thing to happen for yonks!
 
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