20,000 tons, 35km outside of Hong Kong less than 50km from a Nuke.

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday November 26, 2002 13:38 by an ainrialai asarlai ag iascaracht. ipsiphi23 at email dot com

USA and Hong Kong today sign agreement on cargo shipping security.

Tanker Catches Fire in Chinese Waters (AP) 6:27 AM Nov 25, 2002 HONG KONG –– High winds and rough seas hampered attempts Monday to put out a fire aboard a tanker carrying 20,000 tons of liquefied ... Ship, Tanker Collide Off China Coast (AP) 5:42 AM Nov 25, 2002 BEIJING –– A Chinese ship collided with a Maltese-registered oil tanker, spreading an oil slick across a swath of the Bohai sea, state ... Tanker Catches Fire in Chinese Waters (AP) 5:10 AM Nov 25, 2002 HONG KONG –– High winds and rough seas hampered attempts Monday to put out a fire aboard a tanker carrying 20,000 tons of liquefied ... Tanker Catches Fire Off China (AP) 2:47 PM Nov 24, 2002 HONG KONG –– Firefighters battled to control a blaze aboard a tanker carrying 20,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas in Chinese waters ...

Today :-
HK container operator signs security agreement with US port:

Modern Terminals (China Hong Kong) on Tuesday signed an agreement with the Port of Los Angeles aimed at preventing terrorists from successfully targeting cargo containers travelling between Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
see http://www.scmp.com/ tuesday 26 /11/02

earlier this week a message was sent on:

INMARSAT equipment A, B &M Distress link via Coast-Earth Station. C-447735010(POR) and C-447735020(IOR)
AFTN address VHHHYKYX
MF/HF frequency communication 4 X 1.5 KW

reporting a fire on board a tanker carrying 20,000 tonnes of liquified gas.
The ship was reported to be in Chinese State waters drifting towards a nuclear power station.

then the same message was issued on:
the international EPIRB distress signals system:
Digital Selective Calling System 2187.5, 4207.5, 6312, 8414.5, 12577, 16804.5 khz & Ch.70.

I´m sorry that I am not presently in the position to tell you who is salvaging the ship.
nor am I in the position to tell you the fate of the crew who have been airlifted from the vessel.
Nor am I able to tell you the exact GSP location of the vessel as I did last week with the "Prestige" nor can I offer you at present satelite photographs of the vessel as I did with the "Prestige".
Nor can I point to a global treaty as I did a week ago being activated aheld of schedule.

Keen readers will maybe recall:

"For the expected international clean-up efforts, future ERS-2 and Envisat imagery will be made available as part of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. The Charter is an international collaboration to put satellite remote-sensing technology into service for civil protection agencies and others in response to natural and man-made disasters.

The Charter was activated on 14 November by the European Commission's Civil Protection and Environmental Accidents Unit to support local authorities in Spain in monitoring the oil spill. The satellites of other agencies within the Charter, including the Canadian Space Agency and the French Space Agency, CNES, are tasked over the area as well".

I can´t tell you more today because the only international agreement being currently invoked far east is the new security arrangements between Hong Kong and the USA.
Neither €SA or the French are invovled in monitoring this "disaster".
But I´ll tell you what I can, in the time I can.

"PAX MUNDI" is built upon several global treaties and ideas.
We are familiar with many of them.

in no particular order:
[human rights]
["free trade" without levy see today´s BBC website for US plans to impose "their levy plan on the world and ignore previous agreements with China]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2513531.stm
[the notion that Space and all extra-terrestial territory is common to Earth and human kind]
[the notion that Antartica is common heritage]

now the last may seem a bit cookie for ye.
but just keep waiting.
I´m fishing.
and I really would recommend a re-read of the report on the Gallician oil spill. The Dutch company has had many successes in the past, most notably its fine work on salvaging the Kursk for the Russian Baltic fleet. So it seems a bit of a come-down for them to be dealing with thermo-dynamics and deep sea preservation of compressed oil off the coast of Gallicia.
news like peace comes dripping slow.

= o as if