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Fuel tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage

By CBC News, cbc.ca, Updated: September 2, 2010 4:49 PM --
A fuel tanker carrying 9½ million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed Thursday.

Coast guard officials say the merchant tanker Nanny, which is owned by Woodward's Oil Ltd., ran aground on a sandbar Wednesday in Simpson Strait, about 50 kilometres southwest of the community of Gjoa Haven in western Nunavut.
"The coast guard ship Henry Larsen has just entered the area. I believe it's at anchor just off of Gjoa Haven as we speak," Larry Trigatti, an environmental response official with the coast guard, told CBC News on Thursday afternoon.
"It's monitoring the situation by helicopter. As you can imagine, there are some shoals in the area, so we want to be very careful in going into that zone."

Woodward's is a major oil

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DrCashFlow Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:4,775 Points:1,168,555 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Sep 3, 2010 8:14:29 PM Ignore DrCashFlow Report Abuse anybody found the chart yet?
APlus Champion Author San Antonio Posts:2,217 Points:609,145 Joined:Apr 2007	Message Posted: Sep 3, 2010 3:23:55 AM Ignore APlus Report Abuse Shoals change from maps/radar may catch as you hit. No fault of captain or crew - and no oil leaked. Take care and get off the shoal soon.
Vette1967 Champion Author Albany Posts:3,644 Points:813,900 Joined:Jun 2009	Message Posted: Sep 2, 2010 8:26:32 PM Ignore Vette1967 Report Abuse Not a good place to run aground. It's an area that could get iced in very quickly.
graceman Champion Author Baltimore Posts:3,225 Points:818,165 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Sep 2, 2010 7:48:04 PM Ignore graceman Report Abuse Hopefully this wont be another disaster.
northeast2 Champion Author New York Posts:2,666 Points:750,305 Joined:Mar 2008	Message Posted: Sep 2, 2010 6:43:19 PM Ignore northeast2 Report Abuse Wait a minute - the Northwest Passage exists?!?! I thought Columbus and Henry Hudson failed to find it because it wasn't there...
playtimeCLE Champion Author Cleveland Posts:5,898 Points:1,091,400 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Sep 2, 2010 5:28:30 PM Ignore playtimeCLE Report Abuse You gotta love this, Does anyone in the oil industry think its time to be a little more careful???
teafortwo Champion Author Washington Posts:15,329 Points:922,180 Joined:Feb 2009	Message Posted: Sep 2, 2010 4:12:36 PM Ignore teafortwo Report Abuse FROM THE ARTICLE: Woodward's is a major oil supplier to Canada's Arctic. The tanker has been carrying diesel to resupply Gjoa Haven and other remote communities in the region. No diesel is believed to have spilled, and the ship's crew is safe, Trigatti said. The ship is a modern double-hulled product tanker, according to the coast guard. Last month, another tanker owned by Woodward's ran aground near Pangnirtung, located in southern Baffin Island. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/09/02/northwest-passage-oil-tanker-spill.html?ref=rss#ixzz0yQ8viYX8
BMW2014 Champion Author Toronto Posts:1,794 Points:364,300 Joined:Jun 2010	Message Posted: Sep 2, 2010 1:53:42 PM Ignore BMW2014 Report Abuse Captain and sailers must be drunk.