Burmah Agate
 The burning Burmah Agate
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The Burmah Agate was a Liberian flag oil tanker .
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On November 1, 1979, she was at anchor near Galveston , Texas , with about 55,000 tons of Nigerian oil on board. In the morning of the day the freighter Mimosa, also sailing under the Liberian flag, rammed the Burmah Agate and tore a hole about 2.5 by 4.5 meters in the starboard side of the hull. An explosion occurred and the leaking oil ignited. The Mimosa crew of 26 was rescued, but only 6 out of 37 Burmah Agate crew members survived. About 8,500 tons of oil were released into the environment and another 25,000 tons were burned. The ship burned until January 8, 1980. It was towed to Brownsville on February 1, 1980 and scrapped.
See also
Web links
- http://photos.orr.noaa.gov/gallery_4/incidents-16.htm
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19800318&id=UowqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GlgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5474,3998293
- http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Historical-Research-Paper-Oil-Spill-Case/118475
- http://capnscott.com/1979/10/31/collision-of-the-motor-tanker-burmah-agate-and-the-freighter-mimosa/
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.iosc.org/papers/00200.pdf ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Burmah Agate on incidentnews.gov ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
