MS Oliva runs aground, Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale Island.

[ronaldburn]

Hi Christine As an Officer of the TDC Association I would not expect less from the fabulous Tristan Islanders, they have over the last just under 200 years saved many hundreds of lives around their Islands. This is just more example of their true seamanship and total generosity. Very well done the crew members of the Prince Albert for your outstanding bravery.

Ron Burn

[aeliseou]

Εαν οι ναυτιλιακές εταιρείες επιθυμούν χαμηλό κόστος λειτουργίας μπαίνουν στο επικίνδυνο παιχνίδι να ναυτολογούν και αξιωματικούς γέφυρας από τις Φιλιππίνες. Τα αποτελέσματα ολέθρια όπως φαίνεται και στο video MS OLIVA και ανυπολόγιστη και η αναπάντεχη οικολογική καταστροφή στο νησί. 

[mdbasile]

Sure makes me feel reall good about taking a voyage with the crew of the PA II....

Oh yea I will next Jan!!

[KristineHannon]

On top of that the Tristan Community is now taking care of them. They stay on the island in people's homes, wearing their clothes and eating their food. I can only have a great respect for the 267 people living there, hosting those who have braught disaster on them and struggling heavily with the vast consequences of this for the local wildlife and their economy.

[KristineHannon]

No mechanical failure was reported and the ship was not an old rusty boat but a newly built (2009) ship with all modern navigation equipment. The crew was thankfull for the rescue but did not say anything about the cause of the disaster.

[ELMASLAD]

Unless there was some catastrophic unforseen mechanical failure here I would personally like to see those responsible set afloat in a rowboat without oars in the middle of the Atlantic so that they could personally experience the unlikely possibility that they would ever be found, the same outrageous possibility that you could hit these remote islands in the middle of the Atlantic. This is an absolute OUTRAGE..

[baddogonline]

@ELMASLAD I am constantly amazed by the reactions of fellow human beings wishing people were dead, because they were involved in an environmental tragedy. We all feel bad for the wildlife, but this misplaced anger is just wrong; it's actually psychopathic... This oil spill will be cleaned up, just like the future ones will be cleaned up. The oil will continue to flow, people will prosper, and humans will continue to coddle other species long after they should have naturally gone extinct.

[MrMentalflossed]

@baddogonline i don't shre your faith in oil companies.

[baddogonline]

@MrMentalflossed It sounds like you don't very much like free enterprise, so I'm going to guess you're a big-gov't guy with a capital 'D'. So, let me explain it this way. It has nothing to do with "faith in oil companies." It's the law; Tristan is a part of the UK. The UK is a full blown Green Party-Socialist Country. Are you saying you don't trust a fellow "leftie" to follow the law and ensure that the big mean-evil oil companies clean up this mess? These are your people after all... ;)

[MrMentalflossed]

@baddogonline wow all i said was i didn't share your faith in the oil companies,..from that you deduced i was a lefty a socialist and a big government guy,.. way to ASSume your way from one detail to a wrong conclusion,.. if i had to pick one group on earth to "belong to" i would pick spiritualists,... can you honestly say from your place of truth ,that oil companies have been responcible thus far? and to you what is of more import, truth or lies to excuse materialistic greed?

[MrMentalflossed]

@baddogonline p.s. if any species on earth is long past it's due date for extinction it is man,.. he has single handledly as a species polluted and set the world to ruin for his own short term gain forgetting nea insulting future generations of their kind by placing the value of their cars over human life both in the future and present day..

[KristineHannon]

Why did we smile? Well, we were all happy the rescue operation succeeded and no one got injured. That's worth a smile, isn't it?!

A little over the top? Not sure what you mean by that... The events were filmed/photographed as they happened. And I believe rescueing 10 people from a shipwreck is worth 10 minutes on Youtube. I believe there is much more insignificant stuff to find on Youtube.

All credit to my team collegues as I was there only to film and photograph. They did all the rescueing.

[ELMASLAD]

@KristineHannon Great work Kristine. Smothered with crude oil, it must have been hell both rescuing and filming. Now to make sure as many people as possible see your work.

[KristineHannon]

Until today we still don't know what has happened on the ship and why - indeed - they managed to hit one of the most remote islands in the world. I can only say that the Captain had a gigantic black eye at the time we rescued them. All crew was still in shock, certainly the day after the rescue when they heard that the ship had broken up. They did express they gratitude and they are now helping the Tristan community with the clean up operations.

[ELMASLAD]

@KristineHannon Hopefully the captain will experience some real wrath and face the consequences for this outrage. Thanks for this graphic filming - I ended up sobbing from anger and sorrow. Mankind is such a major screwup.

[justiceisgods]

I think you would smile also if you were just rescued from a ship that was grounded. Bad things happen.

[ELMASLAD]

@justiceisgods ..and people f**ck up unecessarily too.

[TheBourneBlogger]

a little over the top don't ya think?... 

[fyaskohellcat]

Why are they smiling??

[LaMouleQuiCoule]

Thank you for posting this. I heard about it while in Antarctica on our way back from our last voyage. This whole even will probably go under the radar and very few people will ever hear about it.

How you can sail a tanker into a well chartered island at 14 knots is beyond me.

Glad it wasn't our ship that rescued them cause I would have punched the captain and the officers in the face repeatedly.

Did the crew and officers express any kind of remorses? what was their excuse?