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Fishermen presumed dead in NZ sinking

There is no chance three missing crewman will be found alive after their fishing boat sank in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean, rescuers say.

…”Sadly, the chances of survival are now nil,” RCCNZ search and rescue mission co-ordinator Mike Roberts said on Wednesday night.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion and five ships spent most of the day searching the area and found no trace of the Korean-flagged trawler’s missing life raft.
“(This) indicates to us it has gone down with the vessel,” Mr Roberts said.
“This means the three men have been in the water for 12 hours.”
“This is far and beyond the maximum time a person would survive in seven-degree water temperatures, even if they had been wearing full immersion suits.”
Mr Roberts said he understood the men had not been wearing immersion suits, which meant their maximum survival time was about three hours.
The 45 survivors - - a mix of Koreans, Indonesians and Filipinos - were rescued from life rafts by another fishing vessel in the area minutes after the Oyang 70 sank off the coast of South Island before dawn on Wednesday.
“From what we understand, this was a catastrophic incident,” Mr Roberts…

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‘Chaotic’ firefighting response might have sunk BP oil rig

Public Integrity reports, “The Coast Guard has gathered evidence it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is investigating whether the chaotic spraying of tons of salt water by private boats contributed to sinking the ill-fated oil rig, according to interviews and documents.”

…s closed-door hearing in New Orleans showed confusion and disarray among and the rig crew members responsible for firefighting in the hours following the oil well blow-out and explosion. This chaotic scene is tracked minute by minute in a series of Coast Guard incident logs obtained by the Center for Public Integrity for a previous story.More at Public IntegrityThe White House showed little sympathy for Tony Hayward, whose departure was announced as BP revealed a record loss. US investigators have meanwhile started a criminal probe into whether close ties between BP and federal regulators contributed to April 20 disaster, the Washington Post reported.The leaders of the government effort to control the oil spill were to give an update on the scope of the disaster to mark the 100-day anniversary.But while a cap on the damaged well appears to be holding and collection efforts have drastically reduced the amount of oil visible in the ocean, officials say the scope of the disaster is still unknown.”When you put…

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