Oil Spill in Hyannis

[Bruce Hooke]

I just heard a report on the radio about a 2000 gallon oil spill in Hyannis harbor (http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2004/12/10/ap/headlines/d86ti26o1.txt) . According to the reports, the poor fellow who was fueling up a ferry died on the spot of a heart attack...

[sbsbw]

Sad,

Kinda amazing that he would be fueling the boat by himself and that nobody else around would notice.

Also on the topic of oil spill there was a large spill in alsaska recently. also a chopper crashed after rescuing the crew of the frieghter, 6 dead.

edit to add: I'll start a new tread about this as so as not to hyjack your thread

[ 12-11-2004, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: sbsbw ]

[Ian McColgin]

As of yesterday morning the oil was pretty much arond the Scudder docks in the northwest corner of the harbor. Then a breeze came up. I don't know why the place had not been completely boomed. By yesterday dusk the area around Grana reeked.

I'm very puzzeled by the cause. The deliveryman (the home heating oil company is related to the ferry he was fueling) had a fatal heart attack and the fuel just kept flowing.

I'm very sorry for the family's loss.

I also wonder if the Sudder companies might be facing some serious fines. I'd thought that when pumping over water it was illegal to prop open the nozzel. It's possible that as the poor man died he got his hand jammed in the grip-valve but that's not what I heard. We'll be learning more.

At least it was calm and despite the clean-up being too cocky and letting the slick grow about ten times larger than it needed to when the gentle breeze clocked to the west, it was still well confined in the end and, for almost 2000 gallons, pretty small surface area.

[Stu Fyfe]

Ian, you're handling this very well for someone who's home is surrounded by a diesel fuel leak! If I were you. I'd look really carefully to see how that fuel is affecting Granna. Any paint damage? Has any fuel worked it's way into the planks? How about your Chamberlain? Are you feeling any ill effects from those fumes? I'm not an insurance guy, But Scudder-Taylor has been around a long time and I'm sure they're well insured, if you kno what I mean.