Oil Spill Off Fastnet Rock

[southwestkerry]

Does anyone else think it curious that a spill of heavy fueloil measuring 9 square nautical miles or 22.5 square kilometers occurred 2 days ago while an aircraft carrier was refueling 50 miles off the Fastnet Rock in West Cork and there is hardly any reporting of it in the media.
The British think it serious enough to send a RN Destroyer into Irish waters, and we an Island nation ignore it and can only muster a 28 year old fisheries boat to attend.

Is it that it happened in Cork?
Is it that we are not aware that we are living on an island?

Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland

In addition to the Russian aircraft carrier and tanker, a British destroyer, a second tanker and the Irish naval vessel L.E. Aisling were on the scene, south of Fastnet, the Coast Guard said.

AAaaaaaaa uuuuuhhhhhh I cant take it any more... my paranoid android evil twin tell's me the Ruskys were fooling about in their rust bucket while the Brit submarine was involved in a game off chicken with them... unbeknownst to them both the Frogs were taling them both when the Brits freaked out after the Ruskies [ still with me !!!!] drunk as always went straight at the Brits who went in to a sharp dive to ovoid collision only to hit the Frogs, and yes the Ruskies cracked a few old rocks in the process.

[He3]

AAaaaaaaa uuuuuhhhhhh I cant take it any more... my paranoid android evil twin tell's me the Ruskys were fooling about in their rust bucket while the Brit submarine was involved in a game off chicken with them... unbeknownst to them both the Frogs were taling them both when the Brits freaked out after the Ruskies [ still with me !!!!] drunk as always went straight at the Brits who went in to a sharp dive to ovoid collision only to hit the Frogs, and yes the Ruskies cracked a few old rocks in the process.

Finally a coherent unified field explanation. If it happened off Howth they'd be all over it.

[spidermom]

Da brudder Noel Aherne on drivetime with Mary today!

We are apparently sending out a tug tonight to "TEST" the oil(?)

But the "good" news is we have some sh*t hot EU boat on standby to deal with the situation.

BAD news is this kind of spill is extraordinarily hard to deal with.

GOOD news is there is a interdepartmental special commitee now in place monitoring the situation.
So thats good ....................................!!

[absconded]

Oh, Noel is on it!!
Sending a civilian hired tug out tonight to check on whats happening in our back yard. Cool!!!
Maritime??? Whas Dah fek dat, no votes out there

[Clanrickard]

Why are the Brits on scene with more naval assets than us in our waters.

Because we don't have a proper Navy. And worse people want us to cut defence spending instead of increasing it.

[southwestkerry]

Da brudder Noel Aherne on drivetime with Mary today!

We are apparently sending out a tug tonight to "TEST" the oil(?)

But the "good" news is we have some sh*t hot EU boat on standby to deal with the situation.

BAD news is this kind of spill is extraordinarily hard to deal with.

GOOD news is there is a interdepartmental special commitee now in place monitoring the situation.
So thats good ....................................!!

Dont forget Noddy sorry Noel do'nt want to piss off the Ruskies.... look what happened the last country that stepped on their toes!

[spidermom]

Dont forget Noddy sorry Noel do'nt want to piss off the Ruskies.... look what happened the last country that stepped on their toes!

Sure if we p*ss them off what harm we have our iodine tablets!!!!


(now where did I put them ?....................................)

[He3]

The iodine tabs have gone off by now spidermom.

Down to the Holy Water.

[spidermom]

The iodine tabs have gone off by now spidermom.

Down to the Holy Water.

ARA I know!
There's 6 of us,they sent me enough for 4, with a expiry date of 3 months hence!!!

Fe*king EE*ITS!!!


Hey speaking about waste of money!

Where's your what to do in a catastrophy book penned by the moustachioed one?

Is there a chapter in it about THIS?

[lostexpectation]

It was a ship from the Russian navy. Now if was an English Battleship or an American Aircraft carrier we would have been hearing about it all day. Kenny would have had some 'independent scientist' telling us how Ireland would be wiped off the map if the nuclear ordinance had gone off. Joe Duffy would have had all the wing-nuts protesting at Shannon on screeching about imperialism. Charlie Bird would have been in dingy off the cost dressed in in a wet-suit dipping a seagull into a pool of oil.

But is was the Russians so RTE put the story at the bottom of the news agenda. Because those Russians are just cuddly bears and won't harm a fly.

it was in international waters what imperialism go to do with