Attempts to pump out the residual fuel of from the MV Rena, stranded on Astrolabe Reef off New Zealand continue with mixed results. New focus for Rena salvagers
Today, a second container ship, the Schelder Trader, lost power and drifted onto the north-west rocks at the entrance to Tauranga Harbour not far from where the MV Rena ran aground. The Schelder Trader was freed without incident. (Thanks to Dirk Bal for the heads up.) Another container ship in trouble off Tauranga, refloated after hitting rocks
In the same hemisphere but a considerable distance away, this week, the Royal Australian Navy Patrol Boat, HMAS Broome, is being credited with preventing an environmental and maritime catastrophe off Papua New Guinea overnight by providing assistance to the container ship, MV Vega Fynen, which had lost power and was drifting towards Ragelapra Reef, 100 nautical miles south-east of Port Moresby. HMAS Broome averts maritime disaster
another famous french landmark builder collaborated with bartholdi to give Liberte her inner strength . . . i mean Eiffel. See here. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blliberty.htm Another little mentioned fact is that bartholdi imagined the statue standing in egypt, not new york. http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/statue-of-liberty-egypt.htm