Oil tanker under inspection before it returns to sea
(CNS): The oil tanker that ran aground while delivering diesel to Cayman Brac on Saturday, 6 July, is now anchored off the coast of Grand Cayman, the Department of Environment and Cayman Islands Coast Guard have said. After temporary repairs were made to its damaged hull, the Sea Elephant left the Brac on Thursday afternoon and travelled to an anchorage point that offers protection where any additional work that may need to be carried out can be completed before the vessel is cleared to return to international waters.
Marine Surveyors from the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands said that additional inspections are needed to assess the effectiveness of the temporary repairs and to determine the need for further repair work. Once completed, any additional repairs will be assessed by a MACI inspector.
“Should it be determined that the vessel is seaworthy for international voyage, she will be authorised to depart Cayman waters to undergo permanent repairs at a location chosen by her owners,” government officials have said.
While no fuel or oils were released into the sea at or after the grounding, an investigation is currently being conducted into the matter by the DoE, CICG and MACI.
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What is the prescribed fine to be levied on Pantheon Tankers Management? The Cayman Islands should be holding the Sea Elephant, crew, cargo and any Cayman Islands assets, until PTM pays a punitive figure with 6 zeros behind it. Hull repairs aren’t the sole enforcement criteria to releasing this valuable commercial collateral. There must be a meaningful deterrent set for these all-too-frequent marine transgressions. The public must see that it is being set and satisfied. Still no disclosure on the Paul Allen Octopus settlement, or whether those mysterious agreed terms were satisfied.
And who you think will pay for it in the end if they give them a big fine?? Do you buy gas? Do you buy diesel? Yes me and you will be the ones paying it every time we buy a galling of gas…
Not Cayman Pilots. During Cayman Energy
operations with up to 5 super tankers ships to ships transfers being done at one time off Cayman Brac/Little Cayman these operations was done Solely by Cayman Brackers. Never happen again, sad.