We parked on the sealed road and walked through the scrub on a bit of a track to the beach. Many others drove up the beach from Rainbow Beach to see the beached ship. We walked up to within 100m, but the security people kept us all away as they commenced the salvage. Brought in a large tow truck and winches, but have to Google the results as we headed off on the rest of our Aug. 2007 .
trip to 1770.
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See the details of the Indonesian Naval Training vessel rescue on the ABC news site...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/30/2019491.htm?site=news
An Indonesian Navy sailing ship freed from a beach near Fraser Island is about to dock in the Brisbane River for repairs.
"The Arung Samudera became stranded on Rainbow Beach last week during a wild storm."
We were camped at Carlo, near Wide Bay for a few days to shelter from the storm that washed 100s of campers off Fraser Island!!! They came in to join us in the caravan park, where we had 941mm in a few nights... see
www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/3640481255/
still have to edit that trip's photos...
Winch recovery tools..
www.4-wheeling-in-western-australia.com/winch-kit.html
see the 100s of thousands of pieces of plastic, litter, rubbish, fishing hooks, fishing line, knives, shopping bags, fishing nets, found in Australian waters now...
Divers find 40-year-old KFC bag in 'pristine' Queensland waterway - ABC News
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An environmental disaster looms for remote East Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, as tonnes of waste wash up on its shores.
ON A LONESOME, seemingly infinite stretch of shoreline more than 100km away from any significant outpost, two Aboriginal rangers trawl through a pile of marine debris. Other than their own footprints, the only obvious signs of life the Yirralka rangers see are a sun-bleached kangaroo skull, crabs, hawks, and the occasional pile of buffalo droppings.
But at this Yolngu-owned area of East Arnhem Land, on the Northern Territory edge of the Gulf of Carpentaria, something is significantly wrong. The beach is far from untouched. It’s littered with thousands of multicoloured nets, ropes, thongs, wrappers and bottles.
Some of the rubbish is easy to spot – barnacle-coated fuel drums or buoys, while some remains harder to see – tiny shards of broken plastic containers and lids. It’s all destructive. At the most recent count, Territory researchers estimated up to a tonne of waste had washed up per kilometre along this remote coastline last year, most of it from Indonesian waters. It’s an environmental disaster knocking, wave after wave, at Australia’s doorstep.
see
www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environmen...
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what we are doing to the wildlife of our oceans..
Enjoy the good bits..
vimeo.com/218502282
australiascience.tv/plastic-waste-has-trashed-one-of-aust...
It’s known that plastic pollution has devastating effects on marine environments. Now, a first of its kind study shows the direct impact plastic pollution is having on hermit crabs on some of the most remote islands in our oceans.
A team of researchers, led by The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) estimates that more than 560,000 hermit crabs have been killed on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, and Henderson Islands in the Pacific, after being trapped in plastic debris.
The study, which is published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, was carried out by the same researchers who previously revealed that Cocos and Henderson islands are littered with millions of pieces of plastic.
Deeper: Plastic waste has trashed one of Australia’s most remote islands
Plastic pollution is a deadly trap for crabs
The hermit crab study found that piles of plastic pollution on beaches create both a physical barrier and a series of potentially deadly traps for crabs.
IMAS’s Jennifer Lavers, who led the studies, says that while considerable attention had been given to plastic pollution in the marine environment, little research had been done into the risk that marine pollution poses to wildlife.
“When we were surveying debris on the islands, I was struck by how many open plastic containers contained hermit crabs, both dead and alive,” she says.
“We decided to do additional surveys across a range of sites of how many containers there were, including how many were open, how many were in a position likely to trap crabs, and how many contained trapped crabs.
“Our calculations show more than 500,000 hermit crabs died from being trapped in containers on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and 60,000 on Henderson island.
“These results are shocking but perhaps not surprising, because beaches and the vegetation that fringes them are frequented by a wide range of wildlife.
Further offshore..
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