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Great Barrier Reef Under Threat From Oil Spill
It was a Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng One that ran aground on Douglas Shoal, off central Queensland near the Great Barrier Reef late yesterday. The ship had departed from the Port of Gladstone and was bound for China.
Early this morning it was found the hull had been breached and an attempt to refloat the ship was abandoned.
At first light planes flew over the area to assess the extent of the slick and found the oil as far as two nautical miles south-east of the grounding.
Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) general manager Patrick Quirk says the ship was off course.
"The vessel is a long way from where it should have been," he said.
The ship has more than 900 tonnes of heavy fuel oil on board, and MSQ says a fuel tank with 150 tonnes of heavy oil has been breached.
MSQ insists it is not a major oil leak, but it is not yet known whether it is large enough to impact the reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands, stretching for over 2,600 kilometres, and is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.
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