Chinese Ship Owners 'Sorry' For Great Barrier Reef Crash

AFP:

SYDNEY (AFP) - The owners of a Chinese ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef causing an environmental crisis admitted Friday that the vessel was off course and apologised for the accident.

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Comments

[rf dude]

11:36 PM on 04/11/2010

'
And here we were so worried about a little lead in the children's toys...

[rollingrock]

11:42 PM on 04/11/2010

Well, you get what you pay for. Don't expect the workers in the Chinese factories to care about quality when they're getting paid 10 cents an hour.

[Emucratic]

03:22 PM on 04/11/2010

I'm still very angry about this incident. They could have destroyed one of the most sensitive habitats within a few weeks.

[KellyRyan]

02:31 PM on 04/11/2010

"Failed to negotiate a turn after leaving the port of Australia." Someone needs to find another profession.

[Whatnow]

09:49 AM on 04/11/2010

Great Barrier Reef, What the hell is that doing there. I've got a schedule here and enough problems to fill a junk.

[PlayTOE]

07:26 PM on 04/10/2010

I expect that these Chinese ship owners will be a lot more willing to pay for the cleanup than the American owners of the Exxon Valdez were to clean up their mess.

I also expect that ship captain to be in serious trouble when he gets back to china and tries to explain how he missed making the turn, and plowed straight into the reef.

[Durango]

12:31 PM on 04/10/2010

Good for them.

It is amazing what good a simple apology can do.

And how often bog corporations or institutions don't. See: Exxon and the Catholic Church.

Someone did a study and found that medical malpractice suits dropped dramatically when doctors and hospitals acknowledged and apologized for their mistakes.

So: Good for them.

[NWBrunette]

10:00 AM on 04/10/2010

Be sorry all you want. But clean up your mess. All of it. Every last ounce of it. And pay for restoration of the ecosystem.

[Le Samurai]

05:35 AM on 04/10/2010

are you implying that they are not sorry? way to be subtle HuffPo.

[Yatata]

03:14 AM on 04/10/2010

The captain isn't sorry!

http://www.greenfudge.org/2010/04/08/update-chinese-captain-takes-no-responsibility-for-great-barrier-reef-oil-spill/

FTA:

"Many people around the world are upset about the incident, but the Chinese ship captain is not one of them."

"Rather than taking responsibility for directing a massive ship off-course and polluting one of the world’s most treasured coral reefs, Captain Wang Jichang complained about rescue workers using the Shen Neng 1’s food and water. According to Brisbane’s Chinese consul-general, Ren Gongping, Wang claimed that the “leakage is not very serious so far” and that he “cannot see the oil on the sea”.

[polishlogician]

01:06 AM on 04/10/2010

amongst radar, sonar, beacons, radio, and GPS...how in the world does a modern ocean vessel get off course....

[Yatata]

02:53 AM on 04/10/2010

They don't. You can bet this was a simple attempt at cost cutting on fuel by trying to take an illegal shortcut through the reef.

[Durango]

12:34 PM on 04/10/2010

That is the Great Barrier Reef.

Doubt anyone would deliberately try a short cut through the reef.

I suppose stranger things have happened. But I would bet it is mere incompetence.

There is nothing so simple that humans can't mess it up.

Which is why I fear nuclear power.

[BeachWar]

12:22 AM on 04/10/2010

Now that they are sorry, they shouldn't mind donating a few billion dollars for the clean up and maintenance of the reef.

[wdw505]

01:05 AM on 04/10/2010

no that just means oops

[BeachWar]

01:11 AM on 04/10/2010

Sadly, I know that to be the truth over my hope and dream.

[GuyRC]

02:25 AM on 04/10/2010

No, no, they do that when they are REALLY sorry.

[Matthaios Ari]

09:45 PM on 04/09/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiGPQVUJqq0

[Tulka2]

07:10 PM on 04/09/2010

ya da ya da ya da. Every frontier needs a sheriff. This guy's license to Captain should be gone and the owners fined in such a way that they will forever keep their ships far from any reef.

[enoughofrr]

06:48 PM on 04/09/2010

And then made to lay in the ocean.

[enoughofrr]

06:49 PM on 04/09/2010

wrong spot

[emmanuel goldstein]

04:19 PM on 04/09/2010

He's only sorry people made such a big deal about it. He should be caned.