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	PakDef Forums - Oil spill threatens Karachi coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		MV Tasman Spirit and pilot Nasir were waiting for the tugs to be free and it was only after 12:40 hours that mv Tasman got the go-ahead to move towards the berth.
		MV Tasman Spirit was left at the mercy of strong winds, confused water currents and strong monsoon currents.
		Tasman Spirit, carrying 67,500 tons of crude, ran aground outside the channel leading to Karachi Port during bad weather and a high monsoon tide.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=4396 (7333 words)

	Malta Today
		Violent monsoon weather had caused the Tasman Spirit - en route from Iran to Karachi, Pakistan carrying 67,000 tonnes of Iranian crude oil - to run aground while navigating the straits leading into the port of Karachi on 27 July.
		Three failed attempts were made to tow the grounded tanker and 20,000 tonnes of oil were salvaged before, on 14 August, the Tasman Spirit’s single hull began to crack, rupturing the vessel in two and spewing its toxic cargo into the Arabian Sea.
		The Tasman Spirit was just one of Malta’s bulging fleet of ageing single-hulled freighters, like the ill-fated Erika and others, that have constituted an environmental hazard of global proportions as they plied the world’s seas.
	www.maltatoday.com.mt /2003/09/29/l5.html (511 words)

	KO :: Tasman Spirit: Karachi Oil Spill Update
		Investigations by the Herald indicate that from the time that Tasman Spirit was beached, the negligence and indifference shown by the KPT and the PNSC bordered on the criminal.
		The two authorities neither had a contingency plan to deal with the situation nor was their top echelon even aware of the standard operating procedures that are to be followed in such situations.
		You are reading Tasman Spirit: Karachi Oil Spill Update, an entry made on November 24, 2005, filed under Pakistan.
	ko.offroadpakistan.com /pakistan/2003_09/tasman_spirit_karachi_oil_spill_update.html (1179 words)

	Pakistan Development Gateway (Announcements) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Greek-registered oil tanker Tasman Spirit carrying 67,000 tons of crude oil for the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) ran aground in the Karachi Harbour channel on Sunday, July 27, 2003.
		A smaller tanker was called from Dubai to remove some oil from the Tasman Spirit to make it lighter and able to float again.
		On the morning of August 13, 2003, the Tasman Spirit developed a crack in the middle and two of its cells started leaking oil.
	www.pdg.org.pk /OilSpill.htm (495 words)

	Tasman Spirit wreck removal is complete
		Due to the time constraints placed by the approaching monsoon season, and the previously unknown extent of the damage sustained by the Tasman Spirit, a combination of patching and lifting was employed to expedite the wreck removal whilst allowing for contingency planning.
		However, the seven crew of the Tasman Spirit, together with the Greek salvage master, remain hostages held under spurious criminal charges filed by the Karachi Port Trust (KPT).
		Pakistan is not a signatory to any of the international oil spill compensation conventions expressly designed, and in force, for many years, to provide compensation in the event of an accidental oil spill such as this one.
	www.smit-international.com /sitefactor/page.asp?pageid=534 (941 words)

	Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
		Polembros was registered in Liberia while Tasman Spirit has Greek officers, Filipino crew and carries a Maltese flag as a flag of convenience.
		On 15 August 2003, Chairman of KPT said that the owners of Tasman Spirit would be “fined just under $200,000 for polluting the sea.” Remember, less than 3 years ago San Francisco Bay merely faced the “potential for the release of oil” and Polembros was sentenced to $2.5 million in civil and criminal penalties.
		First, MV Tasman Spirit was an ageing, rusty, single-hulled 24-year-old tanker.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Letters/2003/Aug03/29/03.html (828 words)

	Reuters-IUCN Environmental Media Awards 2004
		The Tasman Spirit - a Greek-registered, Maltese flag-flying oil tanker - carrying approximately 67,500 tonnes of Iranian crude oil for the PNSC (Pakistan National Shipping Corporation) from the Emirates, bound for the Pakistan State Oil refinery, drifted perilously close to the Karachi harbour, became grounded, and in the process developed cracks along its base.
		An insider disclosed that the pilot, Nasir Javed, who was one of the key players in the Tasman Spirit debacle, was reportedly involved in at least four other accidents last year, and it was incomprehensible to his colleagues why he had been allowed to continue with his duties given his track record.
		Some technical experts meanwhile, point out that since the vessel split within the channel and not outside of it, this indicates that either the channel had not been properly dredged, or the pilot had been provided charts which were erroneous or outdated, which would lay the blame squarely on the hydrographer.
	www.iucn.org /reuters/2004/articles/the-untold-story.htm (2958 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Tasman Spirit Oil spill at Karachi caused colossal Damages
		The oil content also affected the dissolved oxygen content of seawater in the affected area as 16,000 tones oil 51 per cent of the total oil load in the tanker reached the seabed when the tanker sunk.
		Report revealed, the oil deposition occurred because of the extreme turbulent mixing of the sea by strong monsoon winds after the spill, which caused the oil to attach to the suspended sediment and sink to the seabed and the seabed remains heavily contaminated.
		Studies estimated that about 12,000 tons of the Tasman Spirit oil evaporated in few weeks after the spill and this toxic plume drifted with onshore winds over a heavily populated coastal area.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/12/01/top10.htm (1300 words)

	KO :: Tasman Spirit Oil Spill roundup
		The area around the Tasman Spirit is still fl, but about a kilometer away from the broken up wreck the sea seems as clear as it used to be.
		I had posted earlier on the Tasman Spirit day by day, so here are all those posts in chronological order, with the newest at the bottom.
		You are reading Tasman Spirit Oil Spill roundup, an entry made on November 24, 2005, filed under Pakistan.
	ko.offroadpakistan.com /pakistan/2004_02/tasman_spirit_oil_spill_roundup.html (461 words)

	IUCN - Pakistan Programme
		This demand was raised at a meeting of the PNC of IUCN, held at the IUCN Country Office in Karachi, which was attended by representatives of 16 member organisations.
		The PNC meeting discussed all aspects of the oil spill caused by the oil tanker “Tasman Spirit” being marooned near the port of Karachi.
		The meeting noted that PNC Karachi based members and the IUCN Secretariat are already participating in assessment of the impact of the oil spill and development of a rehabilitation plan.
	www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/news/029aug.htm (254 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Pakistan not to secure funds for insurers of Tasman Spirit
		The recommendations would be considered as the basis for developing potential options to restore, replace or provide other environmental benefits to offset the damage from Tasman Spirit disaster.
		On completion of the first phase, considered to be a short-term assessment spread over a period of three weeks, two more assessments involving mangroves, fish, birds, marine mammals, sea turtles, bottom (benthic organism and plankton) have been planned to be undertaken.
		It is believed that about 30,000 tons of crude oil had spilled from Tasman Spirit after it ran aground on July 27 in the KPT channel.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts34826.htm (739 words)

	Maritime Global Net
		Secondly, the Tasman Spirit situation reinforces an unwelcome trend towards criminalisation of spill events – a process making it increasingly difficult for salvors to respond in certain jurisdictions.
		Thirdly, the treatment of the Salvage Master for Tasman Spirit - and the Master of the Prestige - reminds ISU members that salvors, as front-line responders, are vulnerable.
		Salvors are not responsible for casualty events giving rise to pollution, but, when rendering salvage services to such casualties, they are bound by the Salvage Convention 1989 and by Lloyd’s Form, if that salvage contract is being utilised, to use their best endeavours to prevent or minimise damage to the environment due to pollution.
	www.mglobal.com /news/newsreleasedetails.cfm?id=3808&type= (382 words)

	Middle East Times
		More than 300,000 people were exposed when the Greek-registered [italic} Tasman Spirit broke up near the Arabian Sea port of Karachi and caused an upsurge in health problems, the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency report said.
		The 31,000 tons of crude oil that leaked into coastal waters from the tanker also caused colossal environmental damage, destroying young mangroves and littering beaches with dead fish and turtles, it added.
		The Tasman Spirit, owned by Assimina Maritime Limited of Malta, split in two near Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and its commercial hub, more than two weeks after running aground on July 27, 2003.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20041202-110334-4045r (297 words)

	GN Online: Grounded Greek tanker likely to split
		The layer is expanding fast as crude spurts out of a crack right in the middle of Tasman Spirit whose front portion is dangerously tilted on one side and is being splashed by up to nine feet of high waves.
		One of these tanks is filled with water, while the remaining two have up to 5,000 tonnes of crude stored in them, he said.
		Tasman Spirit was loaded with around 67,500 tonnes of crude and some of it leaked soon after it was grounded.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=95160 (550 words)

	Tasman Spirit Wreck Removal in Balance
		KARACHI, 1 December 2003 — The removal of oil tanker Tasman Spirit wreckage is still hanging in the balance and it is feared that this may be delayed till the ‘season’ of September 2004, if urgent steps are not taken, sources said.
		Nik Papa was detained in Pakistan against the breakage and pollution caused by Tasman Spirit under FIR lodge by KPT and was under trial at the Sindh High Court.
		The leakage of crude from the Tasman Spirit caused immense damage to the marine life in addition to the mangroves of the area.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=35745&d=1&m=12&y=2003&pix=world.jpg&category=World (405 words)

	Oil spill threatens Karachi coast.--Ummah.comGeneral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		They fear the MV Tasman Spirit, which was chartered by Pakistan's national shipping corporation, may explode as it sinks.
		A layer of oil spilled from the grounded Greek oil tanker Tasman Spirit carrying 67,500 tons of oil is seen off Karachi port, August 13, 2003.
		The Greek-registered oil tanker MT Tasmin Spirit is stranded off Karachi's coast in Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=21225 (740 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Stories: Report on Tasman Spirit Losses in Pakistan to be Unveiled Shortly
		KARACHI: The estimates of losses caused by the grounding of oil tanker Tasman Spirit and subsequent oil spillage will be finalised soon.
		He said the losses caused to affected residents, fishermen and persons doing small business at the coast will also be determined so as to present the total losses at a seminar to be held in mid February.
		He said detailed estimates should be worked out alongwith the impact of the incident besides medical, social and economic losses as well as the losses suffered by unemploying fishermen and their families.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/01/23/top8.htm (187 words)

	TT-Line-Tasmania Postcards
		Spirit of Tasmania II Spirit of Tasmania III
		She was sold in 1993 to the Government of Tasmania, for service between Devonport (Tasmania) and Melbourne (Australia) as the Spirit of Tasmania.
		Spirit of Tasmania II at Station Pier, Melbourne, from the Rialto Tower, 16/12/02.
	www.simplonpc.co.uk /TT-Line-Tasmania.html (500 words)

	The Nation
		ISLAMABAD - The Tasman Spirit oil spill at the Karachi coast last year had caused huge damages to environment and marine life besides affecting around 0.3 million people.
		The report said the oil deposition occurred because of the extreme turbulent mixing of the sea by strong monsoon winds after the spill, which caused the oil to attach to the suspended sediment and sink to the seabed and the seabed remains heavily contaminated.
		However, according to report full recovery is not expected to take place until all of the spilled oil from the Tasman Spirit in seabed sediments is gone or stops leaching out the water column above.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/dec-2004/1/index5.php (1354 words)

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		Given this forewarning, it was perhaps not surprising that Karachi Port Trust adopted an ostrich-like position initially after the grounding of Tasman Spirit and vehemently denied media reports that oil was leaking from the obsolete tanker and would cause major environmental and health problems.
		The Tasman Spirit split into two on the night of August 13, releasing huge quantities of crude and despoiling Pakistan Independence Day, which falls on August 14, for the residents of Karachi.
		"The coastal environment in which the Tasman Spirit spill occurred is a rich and diverse tropical marine/estuarine ecosystem," notes a report compiled by a coalition of environmental organizations, including the Environmental Protection Agency.
	multinationalmonitor.org /mm2004/04march/march04front.html (1787 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Metro: Notice issued to Eight respondents in Tasman Spirit Case
		KARACHI: Justice Zawwar Hussain Jaffery of High Court of Sindh (SHC) on Tuesday issued notices to Salvor Master, Nicholas Papas, Captain Krystinoe Dimitryios, Master of Tasman Spirit and others for Feb-23.
		The bench after hearing the counsel issued notices to all the respondents for Feb 23.
		Tasman Spirit, carrying 67000 metric tonnes of crude oil, run aground just at the mouth of the channel of Karachi port on June-27 resulting in worst ever ecological disaster along coastal belt of Arabian sea.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/02/18/metro2.htm (235 words)

	Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily]
		KARACHI (April 10 2005): The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPC) has refused to pay any compensation from its account to Pakistan with regard to the casualties of Tasman Spirit disaster in July 2003, it is learnt.
		Some senior officials in IOPC Fund have turned down the compensation claim, saying that "At the time of 'Tasman Spirit' incident, Pakistan was not a party to the Civil Liability Convention (CLC-92), nor the 1992 Fund Convention."
		As far as the case of Tasman Spirit compensation is concerned, "Pakistan is likely to receive compensation from IOPC Fund 1992 is therefore incorrect."
	brecorder.com /index.php?id=227859&currPageNo=1&query=&...&supDate= (484 words)

	yehey! News
		The European Parliament on Thursday demanded the immediate release of four Greek and three Filipino sailors whose tanker, the MV Tasman Spirit, caused a huge oil spill when it sank last year in the Arabian Sea.
		The Tasman Spirit broke up on August 14 last year, two weeks after running aground in a shallow channel.
		The KPT registered a case against the owners and crew after the ship leaked 28,000 tonnes of crude oil into Karachi's coastal waters, destroying young mangroves and littering the beaches with dead fish and turtles.
	www.yehey.com /news/print.aspx?a=63503 (361 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		Pakistan requested United Nations assistance after the MT Tasman Spirit ran aground off the Port of Karachi during a monsoon storm on July 27 and broke up two weeks later, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer, said today.
		At first, Chairman of the Karachi Port Trust, Ahmed Hayat, said the owners of the Tasman Spirit would be fined just under $200,000 for polluting the sea, disagreed with environmentalists' concerns that marine life, including the endangered green and olive ridley turtles that nest on nearby beaches, could suffer for years.
		President Pervez Musharraf established a Tasman Spirit oil spill coordination committee headed by Sindh Chief Secretary Dr. Mutawwakil Qazi, which met at the Sindh Secretariat Thursday and today.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/aug2003/2003-08-29-02.asp (882 words)

	Call to Action for Oil Spill: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
		IT IS NOW NEARLY ONE MONTH SINCE the oil tanker Tasman Spirit ran aground in one of the harbour channels of Karachi port and began to spill oil, slowly poisoning the marine environment and making human life uncomfortable for inhabitants in its range.
		Worse, piddling sums are being mentioned in connection with the damages to be sought from the owners and/or insurers of Tasman Spirit when the cost of the salvage operation to the government is going to be many times these amounts, forget about the untold loss to marine life in the area.
		This has now happened a second time this month: the Tasman Spirit is prolifically leaking its oil again, proving the government agencies wrong.
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00002478&channel=civic+center (2558 words)

	Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily]
		Tasman Spirit oil spill: $1 billion compensation may be sought
		ISLAMABAD (November 14 2004): Pakistan is likely to seek compensation of $1 billion from Greece for oil spilling in Pakistan territories by MT Tasman Spirit, a Greek-registered oil tanker, on July 23 last year, official sources told Business Recorder.
		Sources said the decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting on October 13 wherein Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz enquired about the latest position of the case of M T Tasman Spirit's oil spill.
	www.brecorder.com /index.php?id=76547&currPageNo=2&query=&search=&term=&supDate= (469 words)

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