Oliva (ship)

Oliva

Ship data flag  Malta Ship type Bulk carrier Callsign 9HA2075 home port Valletta Owner Monteagle Shipping SA Shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group Launch June 24, 2009 Whereabouts ran aground and broken in March 2011

Ship dimensions and crew length 225 m ( Lüa ) width 32.26 m measurement 40.170 BZR / 25.603 NRZ

Transport capacities Load capacity 75,208 dw Volume 89,938.9 m³

Others Classifications American Bureau of Shipping Registration numbers IMO no. 9413705

The Oliva was a bulk carrier sailing under the flag of Malta , which ran aground off Nightingale Island in March 2011 and broke up.

Details of the ship

The Oliva was built in 2009 by the Chinese Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group. The keel of the ship was laid on April 8th, and the ship was launched on June 24th, 2009. The delivery to the shipowner, Monteagle Shipping SA, took place on August 17, 2009. The ship was operated by the Greek company TMS Bulkers Ltd.

The ship was powered by a MAN B&W marine diesel engine built under license in China . It had six holds .

Ship accident in March 2011

The ship ran aground on March 16, 2011 at around 4:30 a.m. on the cliffs of Nightingale Island , an island in the Tristan da Cunha group of islands in the South Atlantic . On board the ship, which had loaded soybeans for Singapore in Santos , Brazil, were 22 crew members , a Greek captain and 21 Filipino seamen.

A fishing vessel that was in the vicinity took over 12 crew members and initially stayed near the damaged vessel in order to be able to intervene in an emergency. As the weather worsened, it was decided to hide the ten remaining crew members. This happened on March 17th with the help of rubber dinghies from the cruise ship Prince Albert II, which had meanwhile arrived at the site of the accident . The rescued crew members were also brought on board the fishing vessel. 15 of the crew members were then brought to Tristan da Cunha , the other seamen stayed on board the fishing vessel and returned to the scene of the accident.

The ship broke on the night of March 17-18, 2011. Around 800 tons of heavy fuel oil were released, which endangered important breeding grounds for various animal species in the archipelago, including several colonies of rockhopper penguins .

Two years later, the ship's lifeboat, which the crew had not used, washed up in Australia. It was still intact.

See also

• List of major oil spills

Web links

Commons : IMO 9413705  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Footnotes

1. ↑ News MS Oliva . In: The Tristan da Cunha website , March 16, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} MS Oliva runs aground on Nightingale Island , The Tristan da Cunha website. Retrieved April 13, 2011
3. ↑ Recordings of the recovery , YouTube
4. ↑ Recordings of environmental impacts , YouTube

Coordinates: 37 ° 25 ′ 19 ″  S , 12 ° 28 ′ 37 ″  W