At 14h14, Monday, 04th May, NSRI Port Elizabeth launched the sea rescue craft EIKOS RESCUER IV accompanied by an EC Government Health EMS rescue paramedic, to rendezvous with the floating drill platform ROWAN RELENTLESS, sailing from Mauritius to the Bahamas, to casualty evacuate two crew, a 33 year old male suffering a back injury and a 30 year old male suffering a knee injury. On arrival on the scene, 5 nautical miles South East of Cape Recife, both casualty crew were transferred onto the … [Read more...] about Patient evacuation off Drill Rig
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MyPE Image: Oil Rig
Seen by MyPE - Somewhere in #AlgoaBay: Instagram filter used: Normal Photo taken at: Algoa Bay outside Nqura Harbour during a Sardine Run to see the dolphins with Expert Tours View in Instagram ? Submit your Port Elizabeth images for publication by CLICKING HERE … [Read more...] about MyPE Image: Oil Rig
Have Harbour, Will Pollute Version 2
With reference to this letter to the editor, Have Harbour, Will Pollute, local clean up outfit Xtreme Projects have submitted two images of a recent mock clean up exercise that hey held as well as answering some of the concerns raised by Ocean Messengers. As Kevin said in the comments to the above letter to the editor; Xtreme Projects are on duty at the rig 24 hours a day, the containment booms at the rig are monitored 24 hours as the wind and the flowing Coega river with wood, sewage etc … [Read more...] about Have Harbour, Will Pollute Version 2
Have Harbour, Will Pollute
On a flight towards Woody Cape yesterday, I flew over the Coega Harbour and saw the oil platform that is moored there being rinsed and washed. I wonder if they have a SAMSA permit and if it is under the same conditions as the previous Oil Rig that was 'cleaned' recently? The series of four images clearly show: Large amounts of water exiting the oil rig's structural columns connecting the pontoons and operating deck. An 'ominous' and unhealthy looking 'shadow' following the dredger out … [Read more...] about Have Harbour, Will Pollute
Will Coega Become a Haven for the Dirty Oil Rig Cleaning Industry?
A second Oil rig berthed within the Nqura harbour at Coega this past weekend. Since the controversial first "repair and cleaning" of an Oil rig many questions and queries were posed to Coega and Portnet which were never satisfactorily answered in detail. And now the authorities have allowed what appears to be a second rig to enter the Nqura harbour! The entry of any oil rig into Algoa Bay raises many environmental questions as oil is harmful to the marine environment. The movement of the … [Read more...] about Will Coega Become a Haven for the Dirty Oil Rig Cleaning Industry?
I Don’t Know About You but Images Like This Make me Nervous
So there we were with a wonderful new big harbour just down the drag from the Port of Port Elizabeth. Everyone had a fine time doing the Environmental Impact Assessments and then swung into action to keep an unsuspecting populace in check and ignorant of abuse of the very laws that were championed in order to establish the Nqura Harbour in the first place. A few years down the line the EIA's had been buried in paper and the watchers have become complacent - fat with the free lunches, drowning … [Read more...] about I Don’t Know About You but Images Like This Make me Nervous
Coega Oil Rig Repairs a Major Cause for Concern
The Coega Environmental Monitoring Committee (EMC) meets every month in order to report back on outstanding and upcoming issues within the Coega IDZ and the Port of Nqura. At the 23 February meeting, Dr Paul Martin, the Coega/Ngqura Environmental Control Officer (ECO) highlighted a potential conflict with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that was originally issued for the Port of Nqura saying; "The ECO has previously raised concerns that the Port is being used for the repair of … [Read more...] about Coega Oil Rig Repairs a Major Cause for Concern
