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Tasman Spirit was grounded at the Entrence of Karachi Harbor on 17th July 2003. Vessel was scheduled to enter port during afternoon high tide, but miss the tide. Despite Captain reluctance Pilot insist that he can still berth the vessel at OP-1.
Since water was low and the ship have more draft, it grounded on the sand just outside the entrance. Pilot in attempt to save himself ask Port to try pull the vessel out of sand, on Pilot request 5 tugs from Karachi Port Authorities were deployed along with 2 Navy tugs to pull her out but since she was laden with 67,000 tons of oil, all the manage after two days of pulling is to break her into two.
Later on more vessels were deployed for the clean up job, but Clifton beach still brave 30,000 M/tons of oil and remain inexcessable for 2 months.
Later on the ship was towed by the Smit in 2 pieces to Gadani where she was dismantaled.
Anyone wants to know more, please contact me, actually we were the handling agent for that vessel at the time.
Former name(s):
- Hemingway (Until 1998 Jul)
- Hyperion (Until 1998 Mar)
- Tasman Spirit (Until 1997 Oct)
- Mabini (Until 1990 Apr)
- Kenko (Until 1989 Dec)
- Kenko Maru (Until 1986)
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They kept all the crew from Tasman Spirit and from Salvage company (Smith) for long time. Released the crew after 3 months keeping Master for 2 more months.
He was in soo bad shape that he consider sucide to get rid of all the hardship he was going through. Later on KPT release him on the Gurantee of the owner.
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Thanks this picture, which well known and seen in Lloyds List and your remarks about the pilot error, which would have been welcomed at the time of hearings in Karachi port, were master, crew aned slavage masters were detained for a long time and it seems the rule of the junlge persisted..
Regards
Reinier
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In their attempt to milk out something from Polembros & Smit they even detained Smit people and after lengthy arguments they released others keeping the Master of Tasman Spirit in detaintion for so long (5 months I think) that he (according to my information) tries to kill himself.
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