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	adn.com \| Selendang Ayu
		Divers with underwater cutting torches and a crane operator on a bobbing barge are dismantling the tilted wreckage of the Selendang Ayu.
		The recent grounding of the Selendang Ayu in the Aleutians was an entirely preventable and unacceptable tragedy.
		The captain of the Selendang Ayu pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage to a single charge of lying to federal investigators looking into his vessel's wreck on the rocks near Unalaska in December.
	www.adn.com /news/alaska/selendang (393 words)

	M/V Selendang Ayu
		The 738-foot-freighter Selendang Ayu grounded and broke in two on December 8, 2004, just offshore of Spray Cape, Unalaska.
		Selendang Ayu cleanup crews aboard the M/V Mt. Mitchell receive survival training in Unalaska, Alaska, April 20, in preparation for spring cleanup operations slated to start the week of April 25.
		Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Tracking teams are currently performing assessments of sites affected by the Selendang Ayu oil spill in preparation for the next phase of cleanup slated to start the week of April 25.
	www.uscgalaska.com /go/doctype/780/11555 (288 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Bad Weather Hampers Alaska Oil Spill Response; Crew Members Questioned
		Ten of the original 26 crew of the Malaysian-flagged Selendang Ayu arrived Saturday in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where they were to meet with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the US Coast Guard said.
		The Selendang Ayu is operated by Singapore-based IMC Transworld.
		Ayu Navigation of Port Klang, Malaysia is the "potential responsible party," according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation situation report.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-12/24905.html (575 words)

	SitNews - Vessle Master Admits To Lying To Federal Investigators During Investigation Of Grounding Of M/V Selendang Ayu
		The remotely operated vehicle is maneuvered near the bow of the Selendang Ayu during it's sub-surface investigation of the wreck February 3, 2005.
		The Selendang Ayu was a bulk carrier carrying soy beans from Seattle to China when it ran aground off the island of Unalaska in the Aleutian chain.
		The Selendang Ayu was sailing from Seattle to China under a time-charter agreement when, on December 6, 2004, the crew shut-down the main engine after seeing water spraying from a crack.
	www.sitnews.us /0305news/033105/033105_selendang_ayu.html (1262 words)

	Alaska Spill Cleanup Slow as Cold Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Selendang Ayu is hard aground near Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain.
		The wreck of the Selendang Ayu is in the background.
		Holding a Selendang Ayu life ring, Jeff Williams with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service stands atop a cargo hatch that washed ashore from the wrecked freighter, visible in the background.
	www.earthhopenetwork.net /Alaska_Spill_Cleanup_Slow_as_Cold_Oil.htm (1208 words)

	Aleutian Life Forum 2005 - Research Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The M/V SELENDANG AYU, a 738 foot Malaysian flag bulk freighter loaded with 66,000 metric tons of soy beans, was on a voyage on the Great Circle Route from Seattle, Washington bound for a port in China.
		The M/V SELENDANG AYU continued to drift in deep water until 1525 on December 8th when the vessel drifted into the shallow waters off Unalaska Island and the vessel dropped one anchor to stop the drift.
		Tragically 6 crewmembers from the M/V SELENDANG AYU are missing and are presumed to have died in the helicopter crash.
	www.aleutianlifeforum.org /morris.htm (1299 words)

	Selendang Ayu Incident Site - Unified Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The crew of the Selendang Ayu was able to drop one of the ship's anchors in an attempt to slow the vessel but the anchor broke.
		Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters and their crews are in the air standing by for a possible airlift of the Selendang Ayu's crew.
		The tug slowed the progress of the Selendang Ayu's drifting to one nautical mile an hour, however the 8-inch think tow-line broke at 1:30 a.m.
	www.piersystem.com /external/index.cfm?cid=912&fuseaction=EXTERNAL.docview&documentID=58767 (297 words)

	Coast Guard Magazine: Peril at sea: Coast Guard aircrews face extraordinary danger during a rescue off the Alaskan coast
		The motor vessel Selendang Ayu, a 738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter, ran aground during heavy weather and eventually broke in two on the northern shore of Unalaska Island, Alaska, Dec. 8.
		The Selendang Ayu was hauling soybeans to China when it grounded into a shoal after drifting for nearly two days.
		The Jayhawk was responding to a call to hoist people from the stranded Selendang Ayu on the northern coast of Unalaska Island.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBY/is_2005_Jan/ai_n13787616 (1313 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Freighter's leaky bow section left to fate
		The 738-foot Selendang Ayu's bow section, left, could continue to leak fuel into the coastal waters of Unalaska Island for weeks.
		Salvagers say it is not possible to recover an estimated 170,000 gallons of bunker oil from the bow section of the Selendang Ayu.
		The Selendang Ayu, a Malaysian-flagged freighter, went adrift Dec. 7 while en route from Puget Sound to China with a load of soybeans.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002121177_oilspill16m.html (1182 words)

	Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This is about the grounding M/V Selendang Ayu on 12/8/04 and it's salvage off the coast of Unalaska.
		Removal of the Selendang Ayu wreck is still being evaluated.
		The captain of the Selendang Ayu admitted Wednesday in U.S. District Court that he lied to federal investigators about the grounding of the freighter last December in the Aleutians.
	spaces.msn.com /members/salendangayu/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart (204 words)

	Bird Treatment and Learning Center Anchorage, Alaska: December 2004
		When the Selendang Ayu broke apart, officials estimated the bow section held 176,000 gallons of heavy bunker fuel.
		And now soybeans are floating through the water, accumulating on the bottom and piling up knee-deep on beaches near the shipwrecked freighter Selendang Ayu, which broke apart last week on Unalaska Island and began spilling its 66,000-ton load of soybeans.
		Salvage experts finally reached the grounded and broken up freighter Selendang Ayu during a long-awaited break in weather Sunday and found the ship is in worse shape than they had hoped for.
	birdtlc.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_birdtlc_archive.html (6118 words)

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		That wreck cost six crewmembers of the Selendang Ayu their lives when a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter sent to rescue them crashed after being hit by a huge wave.
		While the island of Unalaska waited weeks for the heavy-lift helicopter to be put in place, absolutely no other attempt to offload oil from the Selendang Ayu has occurred.
		Today he says it was a mistake to rely solely on the heavy-lift helicopter to remove oil from the Selendang Ayu.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7665624&postID=110455443798848048 (706 words)

	Airliners.net forum: Bunker C Oil And Soybeans. A Double Trouble
		The Selendang Ayu disable being attempted to be taken into tow by the USCG cutter Alex Haley.
		A second schematic drawing shows the oil on board the Selendag Ayu, giving a breakdown of the type of fuel, and how much was on board, and I believe in parenthesis where the ship was when that oil was loaded aboard.
		It appears that the Selendang Ayu's hull (stern part of it) is collapsing under its own weight due to the constant battering of the waves.
	www.airliners.net /discussions/non_aviation/print.main?id=702951 (3617 words)

	SitNews - Search for Missing Freighter Crewmen Continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The motor vessel Selendang Ayu, a 738-foot freighter ran aground and broke in two on the northern shore of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island Chain.
		A Coast Guard cutter and three tug boats were unable to halt the motor vessel Selendang Ayu's approach to the northern shore of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island chain Tuesday night.
		The Selendang Ayu was transporting a shipment of soy beans from Tacoma, WA to a port in China.
	www.sitnews.us /1204news/121004/121004_selendang_ayu.html (729 words)

	AMCC: Our Work: Impacts of Selendang Ayu Oil Spill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though much smaller than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Selendang Ayu oil spill is a potent reminder of the harmful impacts of oil on the marine ecosystem and those who depend on it.
		The Selendang Ayu spill occurred close to proposed offshore oil and gas development in Bristol Bay.
		The Selendang Ayu oil spill threatens marine mammals and seabirds in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, home to Steller sea lions, northern fur seals, sea otters and more than 70 species of birds.
	www.akmarine.org /ourwork/selendang-ayu.shtml (792 words)

	adn.com \| alaska : Bit by bit, ship sets sail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		SELENDANG AYU: State undecided if entire freighter will be removed.
		Welders are lopping off the cabins, cranes and smokestack of the grounded freighter Selendang Ayu and will leave nothing more than a bare steel deck nearly the size of a football field sticking out of the aquamarine water off Unalaska Island by the time they're through.
		The Selendang Ayu left Tacoma, Wash., for China in November with 60,000 metric tons of soybeans aboard.
	adn-proxy.nandomedia.com /news/alaska/story/6823967p-6719159c.html (1551 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Sinking of the Selendang Ayu
		When he arrived at the hellish scene where seas as tall as a three-story building were battering the bulk carrier Selendang Ayu, tug captain Rob Campbell knew he had only a slim chance to help keep the disabled freighter from going aground on a rocky beach.
		The chief engineer of the ill-fated cargo ship Selendang Ayu told his wife by telephone that it had been suffering engine problems long before the shutdown that led to a major maritime disaster.
		Federal agents have begun a preliminary criminal investigation into the grounding of the cargo ship Selendang Ayu last month in Alaska, which resulted in six deaths and a major fuel oil spill.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /alaskaspill (878 words)

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		Kailash Bhushan Singh, the captain of the Selendang Ayu, which broke in two on Unalaska Island in December, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage to a single charge of lying to federal investigators.
		The 738-foot Malaysian-flagged Selendang Ayu lost power and drifted 140 miles before it broke up, spilling more than 300,000 gallons of fuel oil.
		Charges could eventually be filed against officials of IMC Group, the Singapore-based firm that operated the Selendang Ayu, he said.
	www.marinelog.com /DOCS/NEWSMMV/MMVmar31b.html (633 words)

	Focus on ship sinkings & oil spillage in the limelight again
		Authorities earlier said they had called off the search for six missing crew members, who were not wearing cold-water survival gear, and efforts were now concentrated on preventing environmental damage in a sensitive area important to marine mammals, sea birds and fish.
		The wreck of the Selendang Ayu, the 738-foot (225 metres) Malaysian-flagged cargo ship broken in two and grounded off Unalaska Island, illustrates the vulnerability of the 1,000-mile (1,600 km) Aleutian chain, said Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska marine science professor and prominent Alaska environmentalist.
		The Selendang Ayu reported to the Coast Guard early Tuesday morning that it had lost engine power and was adrift on the Bering Sea.
	www.surfersvillage.com /news.asp?Id_news=15186 (376 words)

	alaska.com \| inalaska : Selendang wreck gets close look (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There's a cold, gray world swirling around the wreck of the Selendang Ayu, one of darting fish and pale soybeans and the occasional white-gloved diver sifting rubble and rocks on the ocean floor, searching for traces of oil.
		Tugboats and a Coast Guard cutter were able to reach the Selendang during its slow drift, but one tow line broke, and other attempts to attach lines to the freighter failed.
		The Selendang Ayu went aground in storm conditions on the night of Dec. 8.
	www.alaska.com /inalaska/story/6755775p-6644012c.html (727 words)

	Freighter failed to communicate
		The Selendang Ayu lies broken in two on rocky Alaskan shoals, and six men -- including most of the engine room crew -- are missing and presumed dead.
		The direct-drive two-stroke engine in the Selendang Ayu is about two stories high and is located inside a cavernous engine room.
		As it was, the first tugboat wouldn't arrive at the Selendang Ayu until a day and a half after its engines were stopped, and by then the help was too little and too late.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/203998_freighter16.html (1580 words)

	SELENDANG AYU update 13 December 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		London, Dec 13 -- Following received from the managers of bulk Selendang Ayu, dated today: With deep regret, by late Friday night (Dec 10), IMC had formally accepted that the six seafarers who remained missing following the crash of a United States Coast Guard rescue helicopter must now be presumed dead.
		DETAILS of the fatal helicopter crash that claimed the lives of six Selendang Ayu seafarers suggest a final, chaotic period when seafarers not dressed for surviving in frigid water were thrown to the mercy of a squally, unforgiving sea, writes Rajesh Joshi.
		The US Coast Guard had urged the Selendang Ayuâs master to have his crew evacuated earlier during its drift, local news reports have suggested.
	www.ampa.asn.au /members/GetFile.aspx?File=members/news/article2778.html (3022 words)

	Selendang Ayu
		The Selendang Ayu, transporting a cargo of soya and with 1,600 tonnes of heavy fuel in her bunkers, suffered from damage to her engine in a storm and grounded on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
		Response efforts were concentrated on the coast, involving the use of booms in the salmon river estuaries and clean-up operations similar to those carried out in France and Spain for the Erika and Prestige spills, but on a far smaller scale.
		The commanding officer of the Malaysian cargo ship the Selendang Ayu was condemned to 3 years probation in March 2005 by an American court, for having lied about the time the damaged engine stopped.
	www.cedre.fr /uk/spill/selendang/selendang.htm (224 words)

	Popular Mechanics: The wreck of the Selendang Ayu; on Dec. 6, 2004, engine trouble left a Malaysian freighter adrift in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Popular Mechanics: The wreck of the Selendang Ayu; on Dec. 6, 2004, engine trouble left a Malaysian freighter adrift in the stormy Bering Sea.
		The wreck of the Selendang Ayu; on Dec. 6, 2004, engine trouble left a Malaysian freighter adrift in the stormy Bering Sea.
		FOR NEARLY TWO weeks the Malaysian-flagged freighter Selendang Ayu had been struggling through deteriorating weather to carry a load of soybeans from Seattle to Xiamen, China.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:131787060&refid=ip_almanac_hf&COOKIE=NO&token=A96E77ACC0874DE1946C3E0000701BD4 (292 words)

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		SELENDANG AYU: Owner disputes necessity of hauling the ship away.
		The Selendang Ayu isn't considered a navigational hazard.
		The Selendang Ayu could prove harder to work on, Magone said.
	lists.topica.com /lists/Oil-PacRim/read/message.html?mid=912126099&... (1850 words)

	M/V Selendang Ayu: NOAA's Involvement
		On December 7, 2004, the M/V Selendang Ayu reported that it had lost power and was adrift in the Bering Sea off Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
		The Selendang Ayu was loaded with 132 million pounds of soybeans, and carried approximately 424,000 gallons of Intermediate Fuel Oil (IFO 380) and 18,000 gallons of Marine Diesel.
		on December 8, the Selendang Ayu went aground between Skan Bay and Spray Cape on the northwest corner of Unalaska Island.
	archive.orr.noaa.gov /selendang/selendang.html (1749 words)

	Earth Imaging Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A natural-color, 60-centimeter QuickBird satellite image features the freighter Selendang Ayu that ran aground and broke apart off the shore of Unalaska Island on Dec. 8, 2004.
		The ship had 440,000 gallons of fuel oil on board and leaked oil near a wildlife refuge—home to sea lions, harbor seals, sea otters, tanner crabs, halibut and kelp beds.
		The double-hull Selendang Ayu belongs to Singapore-based IMC Group, which contracted a private spill-response company.
	www.eijournal.com /Selendang.asp (212 words)

	Netscraps » Blog Archive » Wreck of the Selendang Ayu, Alaska
		The Selendang Ayu disaster caught my attention as the wreck happened almost two years ago.
		Dec 9, 2004: bow & stern sections of the Selendang Ayu after it broke in half
		This entry was posted on Friday, October 27th, 2006 at 11:20 am and is filed under world, Machines Of Unusual Size, nautical disasters.
	blog.netscraps.com /world/wreck-of-the-selendang-ayu-alaska.html (330 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Image:Selendang Ayu-041207201 p007.jpg thumb300pxfloatrightAerial view of Selendang Ayu, broken in half off Unalaska Island.
		The ship had been carrying a significant amount of fuel, so there were fears that the ''Selendang Ayu'' could create the worst Alaskan oil spill since the Exxon Valdez oil spill ''Exxon Valdez''.
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