{"id":5226,"date":"2010-04-13T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2010-04-13T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:47:35","slug":"great-barrier-reef-severely-damaged-by-chinese-tanker-85754573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/great-barrier-reef-severely-damaged-by-chinese-tanker-85754573\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Barrier Reef severely damaged by Chinese tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barrier-reef-nationalturk-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5230\" title=\"Great Barrier Reef severely damaged by Chinese tanker \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barrier-reef-nationalturk-01-148x219.jpg\" alt=\"Great Barrier Reef severely damaged by Chinese tanker \" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>The <\/strong><strong>Great Barrier <\/strong><strong>reef&#8217;s chief scientist said,\u00a0 a coal carrier that ran aground and leaked about 3 tons of oil into the Reef completely pulverized parts of a shoal and caused damage so severe it could take marine life 20 years to recover.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David  Wachenfeld, who is coordinating the authority&#8217;s assessment of the   ship&#8217;s impact said that initial assessments by the Great  Barrier Reef Marine Park Authorities found that the 230 meter Shen  Neng 1, left a scar 3 kilometers long and up to 250  meters wide along the world&#8217;s largest coral reef.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Then Wachenfeld added &#8220;We were  expecting some fairly severe damage to this location, and our  observations to date confirm that expectation,&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Shen Neng 1 slammed into a shoal on  April 3, and coral shredded part of its hull, causing a leak of about 3  tons of oil. That oil was dispersed by chemical sprays and is believed  to have caused little or no damage to the reef.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The vessel was successfully lifted off the  coral reef on Monday after crews spent three days pumping fuel weighing hundreds of tons from the ship to lighten it. Salvage crews later towed it to an  anchorage area near Great Keppel Island, 38 nautical miles (44 miles, 70  kilometers) away.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Damage to  the reef was particularly bad because the vessel did not stay in one  place once it grounded, David Wachenfeld said. Instead, he said that tides and currents  pushed it along the reef, crushing and smearing potentially toxic paint  onto coral and plants.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Barrier Reef severely damaged by Chinese tanker <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,14],"tags":[77194,6695,6710,6708],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-australia","tag-australia-great-barrier-reef","tag-david-wachenfeld","tag-shen-neng-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}