This ship, the M/V Marathassa, has a containment boom placed around it after spilling Bunker fuel into English Bay. The Public was warned not to go into the water and not come in contact with the fuel which began washing up on the local beaches.
It's very annoying hearing the debate in the press that the Coast Guard reaction time was too long. The Coast Guard claims its reaction time was "World Class" while former Coast Guard personnel from the now closed Kitsilano Coast Guard station claim that they could have been there much earlier had the station been kept open by the Federal Government. There is simply too much bull***t going around. If the reaction time was "world class" we have serious trouble on our hands. This spill was a few thousand litres from a new ship (her maiden voyage in fact). Had this been a collision and the spill was tens of thousands of liters, the "world class" reaction time would be seen as pathetic with beaches fouled, marine life seriously compromised, business damaged and possible harm done to locals. All the rhetoric and spin in the world would sound like the tripe it is as we cleaned up the mess.
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