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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Anchors hinder rescue of Russian sub Anchors and antennas are hindering efforts to drag a Russian submarine that is caught in fishing nets to a shallower location.

The Russia's Navy is racing against the clock to rescue seven crew members trapped 190 metres below the surface before their air runs out.

The mini-submarine, itself a rescue vessel, ran into trouble on Thursday when its propeller got entangled in fishing nets.

An antenna also got hooked as the sub participated in a military exercise off the Kamchatka peninsula on Russia's Pacific Coast.

Rescuers have tried to drag the AS-28 mini-submarine closer to shallow waters. However, anchors and a large antenna are hindering the plan, more than 48 hours after the submarine snagged.

"We moved it 100 metres towards the coast but the speed is not sufficient," Admiral Viktor Fyodorov, commander of the Pacific fleet, said.

Admiral Fyodorov says rescuers will now try to cut the antenna and anchors from the submarine.

Navy officials say the crew are in a "satisfactory condition" and are trying to conserve oxygen by keeping movement to a minimum. "According to the signal we have received from the crew all is as normal as can be expected on board and the sailors are in a satisfactory condition and are all alive," Rear Admiral Vladimir Pepelyaev said.

Rear Admiral Pepelyaev says the crew have at least 24 hours of air left.

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As Russia's Navy works to save the crew, teams from Britain and the United States are airlifting submersibles and specialists to the scene.

Kursk disaster

Though much smaller in scale, the accident has echoes of the disaster involving the Kursk nuclear submarine five years ago.

President Vladimir Putin faced criticism for his slow reaction to the Kursk's sinking, which illustrated the post-Soviet decline of Russia's submarine fleet and the failure of top admirals to cope with a crisis.

All 118 seamen on the Kursk died in the accident in August 2000 in the Barents Sea that occurred after explosions on board. The Kremlin and naval command were sharply criticised for not revealing full information on the disaster.

On Friday, when news of the accident was released, officers addressed the public via state television hourly although varying estimates of the amount of air left for the crew did little to clarify the situation.

The cause of the accident was also uncertain.

Initially the Navy said the submarine got caught up in fishing nets but later officials told local news agencies that the submarine had also snagged an antenna of some kind.

Rescue ships Russia, which says it has 10 ships in the rescue effort, has asked Japan as well as the United States and Britain for help. Japan's Defence Agency says four military vessels have been sent to join the rescue operation.

However, it says it would take three to four days for them to reach the site of the accident.

Britain, responding to a request from the Russians, is sending a Scorpio remote-controlled underwater vehicle capable of descending 925 metres.

The US Navy has dispatched specialists and two unmanned submarines to the Russian Far East to join the operation. Two remote-controlled, deep-diving "Super Scorpio" submersibles have left San Diego for Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

A third Super Scorpio will join the rescue effort along with civilian divers with two special suits to allow dives to extreme depths.

DOOR JAM ON NEW £9M FERRY A NEW £9million ferry built by a Polish shipyard at the centre of a political storm has run into trouble after just four weeks on the Clyde. The bow door to the state-ofthe-art MV Bute jammed four weeks after starting on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay route.

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It was made for Caledonian MacBrayne by the Remontowa yard, in Gdansk, which has just been awarded Executive contracts worth £30million. The future of 300 workers at the Ferguson yard in Port Glasgow is at risk after they lost out on the vital contracts. CalMac spokesman Hugh Dan MacLennan said: 'The ball bearings in the door required adjustment which is to be expected in a new ship.'

But the GMB union's Jim Moohan said: 'This highlights the incompetence of the Executive

Recordroeiers Vopak Victorie vallen Maassluis binnen De Vopak Victorie kwam vrijdagmiddag Maassluis binnen. De oceaanroeiers waren moe, captain Maarten Staarink moest met een elleboogontsteking behandeld worden in het ziekenhuis, en ze wilden met windkracht 7 op zee niet langer buiten blijven. Zaterdagmorgen 09.00 uur vertrokken de Ocean Fours met z'n vieren naar Rotterdam voor een groots onthaal.

De aankomst in Rotterdam op zaterdag - Foto : Roger van der Kraan © www.rogervanderkraan.nl

Maarten Staarink, Gijs Groeneveld, Robert Hoeve en Jaap Koomen hebben niet het oceaanroeirecord verbeterd, maar wel een prestatie van formaat geleverd. Zaterdag zijn ze in de Rotterdamse Veerhaven officieel verwelkomd door burgemeester Ivo Opstelten, staatssecretaris Melanie Schultz van Verkeer en Waterstaat, VOPAK-directeur Carel van den Driest en voorzitter Carel van Lynden van Sociëteit De Maas.

De roeiers deden exact 60 dagen, 16 uur en 19 minuten over de 6350 kilometers (3500 mijl) Atlantische Oceaan tussen New York Manhattan en de Britse Scilly Eilanden. Op 27 juli passeerden ze de finishlijn, om daarna nog door te roeien naar Rotterdam. Ze zijn de eerste Nederlanders die roeiend de oceaan overstaken.

In 1896 vestigden Frank Samuelson en George Harbo, twee van oorsprong Noorse vissers van New Jersey, het record in 55 dagen. Na 34 pogingen en (inclusief de prestatie van de Ocean Four) 13 succesvolle oversteken, is het 109 jaar oude record nog steeds ongebroken. De Vopak Victory, waarin de Nederlandse roeiers hun aanval op het record uitvoerden, is 11,10 meter lang en 1,80 meter breed met drie roeiposities en cabines voor en achter. De boot wordt verkocht; de opbrengst gaat naar het Nederlandse Kankerfonds.

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SvitzerWijsmuller to salvage logs from Kiperousa The Danish salvage company SvitzerWijsmuller, which is a division of the AP Moller-Maersk Group and which recently opened a division in South Africa, has been awarded a contract to remove the balance of cargo from the grounded bulker Kiperousa.

The previous salvage contract with the Greek salvage company Tsavliris involved the unsuccessful refloating of the Kiperousa after the bulker went aground off the South African Eastern Cape coast on 7 June. Apart from attempting to refloat the vessel, the team also undertook to remove the deck cargo of about 1600 hardwood logs loaded in Gabon in an effort to lighten the vessel.

These efforts came to an end on 24 July when the vessel was declared a total economic loss and the salvage attempt was abandoned. Approximately 6500 logs remain stowed in the holds of the flooded ship.

A new contract has been awarded in favour of SvitzerWijsmuller and the Tsavliris team has departed from the scene. The heavylift Mi26 helicopter that was brought in from Central Africa to help discharge the deck cargo after attempts at using supply tugs has also left. The helicopter has returned to Central Africa where it is believed to have a contract delivering food aid in Sudan.

The Tsavliris tug Nicolay Chiker called briefly at East London at the weekend for repairs after receiving damage in the salvage attempt but has since sailed.

The team from the South African offices of SvitzerWijsmuller, led by Captain Nic Sloane, is already on site and making preparations to remove the balance of cargo, which had an estimated value in excess of US0m when the ship sailed from Gabon. The attempt is expected to take up to two months.

Two barges are being brought to the scene - one from Durban and the other, a larger barge from the Middle East. Arrangements have been made with the National Ports Authority at East London to store the logs at a site in East London harbour.

Pirates agree to release food aid vessel Somali pirates who have held 10 hostages for more than a month on a ship chartered by the UN World Food Programme to carry food aid have agreed to release the vessel and free the crew, the WFP said on Saturday.

"An agreement has been reached for the release of the ship, crew and food in the next three days," WFP spokeswoman Rene McGuffin said in Nairobi.

The Somali militiamen hijacked the MV Semlow on June 27 as it headed for the northern port of Bossaso carrying 850 tons of rice donated by Japan and Germany for post-tsunami relief to the Horn of Africa nation.

German cargo ship diverted after failing to contact checkpoint Heightened terrorism fears were on display Thursday night when a communications snafu prompted seven Canadian and U.S. law enforcement agencies to swarm a cargo ship moored in the Detroit River. The trouble began when a German-owned saltwater vessel en route from Cleveland, Ohio, to Detroit failed to contact a checkpoint on Pelee Island. "We have to assume everything could possibly be terrorist-related at this point," said U.S. Coast Guard Lieut. Catherine Mellette. Officers from seven forces ordered the ship to

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sail to the U.S. side of the river. U.S. officials searced the Jana yesterday. Background checks on the ship's Russian pilot and its 11 Lithuanian crew members came back clean, said Liuet. Mellette, but it's still not clear why the pilot skipped the Pelee check-in.

Slapende schipper drijft vaargeul in Een elf meter lang zeiljacht heeft in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag urenlang rondgedobberd, terwijl de schipper lag te slapen. Het jacht werd op de Westerschelde ontdekt en is door de reddingsboot Zeemanshoop uit Breskens naar de Vlissingse buitenhaven gebracht. Daar bleek dat de 56-jarige schipper uit Zoetermeer te diep in het glaasje had gekeken.

De man was donderdagochtend uit Dover vertrokken en was op weg naar IJmuiden. Na het oversteken van de Noordzee kwam hij ’s avonds bij Blankenberge zonder brandstof te zitten. Hij hees zijn grootzeil en ging naar de kajuit om iets te eten. Daar viel de man in slaap.

Het jacht voer ondertussen langs de Belgische kust de drukbevaren Westerschelde op. Daar werden de vreemde manoeuvres van het schip rond half twee opgemerkt door het Schelde Coördinatie Centrum. Het jacht dobberde toen ter hoogte van de Vlissingse Sloehaven. Het is door de Zeemanshoop naar de buitenhaven van Vlissingen gesleept.

Toen de redders arriveerden, was de zeiler net gewekt door de schijnwerper van een zeeschip. Hij had volgens de schipper van de reddingsboot geen idee waar hij was.

De man is door de waterpolitie bekeurd vanwege alcoholgebruik

Crew's detention concerns Maritime Union The Maritime Union of Australia says it has humanitarian concerns for 69 foreign crew members aboard a livestock ship that has been placed under arrest at Port Adelaide.

The union says the workers have not been paid in months, and are having to rely on outside assistance for food. The Mawashi Al-Gasseem has been moored off the South Australian coast since March.

Last month, the Federal Court found the ship's owner owed more than $US600,000 in unpaid fuel.

It subsequently ordered the carrier be arrested in Port Adelaide, effectively stopping it from any further movement.

The Maritime Union's South Australian branch secretary, Jamie Newlyn, says the ship's mostly Filipino crew is owed about $US450,000 in back pay. "The 69 crew on board that vessel haven't been payed since February and some in fact haven't been paid for over 12 months," he said.

Mr Newlyn says food and basic provisions are being given to the workers, but many of them are worried that they have not been able to provide for their families.

Onderkoelde zeiler van boord gehaald Vorige week dinsdagochtend vroeg de Kustwacht de reddingboot Arie Visser van West Terschelling om naar het zeil•jachtje Feeks te gaan, dat met mo•torproblemen zo’n 25 mijl ten noor•den van Terschelling voer. Aan boord zou een zeezieke zeiler zijn, maar bij aankomst bleek de 67-jarige man zwaar onderkoeld te zijn. Enkele uren daarvoor was hij te water gegaan om plastic uit de schroef te snijden. Omdat er ander•halve

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meter hoge golven stonden, stootte hij diverse malen zijn hoofd en kreeg hij water binnen. Toen hij na een half uur door de andere opvarende, zijn zoon, aan boord werd gehaald, was hij misselijk en klaagde hij over pijn in de borst. Dat was voor de bemanning van de Arie Visser reden om contact met de radiomedi•sche dienst op te nemen, die hen adviseerde de man van boord te halen en naar Terschelling te brengen.

De Typhoon ontfermde zich over het jacht. De man werd in folie gewik•keld en onderweg knapte hij op. Op het eiland is door de ambulancebe•manning nog een hartcardiogram ge•maakt, maar alles bleek inmiddels in orde. In het boothuis van West kwam hij na koffie en een douche verder op verhaal, waarna hij terug kon naar zijn ondertussen gearriveerde jacht. Vader en zoon kwamen van vakantie uit de Deense Limfjord en waren van plan via Terschelling terug te varen naar de thuishaven Almere. Ze konden later hun reis hervatten.

NAVY NEWS Tipu Sultan returns from goodwill tour

Upon completion of first-ever transatlantic goodwill-cum training tour and maritime exercises with foreign navies in the Atlantic, European and Mediterranean waters, the Pakistan Navy ships returned on Friday.

An impressive gathering held onboard PNS Tipu Sultan to welcome the ships, where Commander Pakistan Fleet, Vice Admiral S V Naqvi, appreciated the high-level of professionalism, upholding of moral values and exemplary commitment depicted by the PN officers and men during the cruise.

He said that in this difficult situation when the world facing the challenges of terrorism and Muslims are being considered as extremists, each of these officers and sailors proved as the best ambassador of the country. The visit proved to be incremental and significant in portraying a softer image of Pakistan.

Mission Commander Commodore, Muhammad Asif Sandila, addressing the newsmen, apprised that the four months’ visit to USA, UK, Jordan, Tunis, France, Ireland, Morocco, Turkey and Saudi Arabia was aimed at generating goodwill, strengthening of ties, interacting with the foreign navies, enhancing the image of Pakistan as moderate Islamic State and above all flag showing in the countries visited.

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The Katwijk KNRM lifeboat DE REDDER seen after returning to the beach, with a special message “RIENEKE, do you want to marry me?” Photo : Piet Sinke ©

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Ford zet vijfde roroschip van Interrijn in De Duitse autoproducent Ford, met fabrieken in Keulen en Neuss, gaat Ford Fiesta's en Fusions over water naar Antwerpen vervoeren. Daarvoor wordt het ms Forens van Interrijn-Roro BV in Zwijndrecht ingezet. De Forens kan, afhankelijk van het autotype per reis rond 550 auto's vervoeren. Op jaarbasis zijn dat er circa 40.000. Dat scheelt ongeveer 4000 vrachtwagenritten.

Ford produceert jaarlijks 400.000 personenauto's waarvan er 260.000 met binnenschepen naar de zeehavens worden gebracht. De 135 meter lange Forens brengt de auto's naar Antwerpen, vanwaar ze in zeeschepen naar Italië, Griekenland en Afrika gaan. Naast de speciaal voor dit transport omgebouwde Forens vervoeren ook de destijds eveneens omgebouwde 110-meterschepen Barco, Ingona, Titan en Kiruna in charter voor Interrijn-Roro auto's van Ford. Ze varen vooral op de terminal van Cobelfret in Vlissingen, vanwaar de Fords per roroschip naar klanten in Engeland en Ierland gaan.

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The first client for the CERES terminal in Amsterdam, the NYK PROCYON seen here entering the IJmuiden locks assisted by the SVITSER MARKEN, and arriving at the CERES terminal Photo’s: top : Jack van der Valk © below : Joop Marechal ©

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Met de komst van het grote containerschip volconsumentengoederen 'NYK Procyon' uit Shanghai op 6 augustus is een belangrijke stap gezet in de ontwikkeling van het Noordzeekanaalgebied. Het is het eerste schip dat wordt gelost in de Ceres Paragon Terminal in de Amerikahaven, tegenover het toekomstige haven- en industriegebied Hoogtij in de Westzanerpolder. ,,De verwachting is dat de Ceres rond de jaarwisseling twee schepen per week 'verwerkt'.'' Dat zegt Joris Moes, voorlichter van Amsterdam Ports Association (Amports), het samenwerkingsverband van de havens van Amsterdam, Zaanstad, Beverwijk en IJmuiden. Volgens Moes is tevens ruimte om eventueel uit te breiden met een tweede Ceres. In 1996 werden in een zogeheten masterplan plannen vastgelegd voor de toekomst van de circa twintig kilometer lange kanaaloever tussen de sluizen van IJmuiden tot het IJ in Amsterdam. Genoemde terminal werd in 2002 al geplaatst, maar lijkt nu pas echt gebruikt te gaan worden.

The tug ENGLISHMAN arrived with the AMT TRADER in Rotterdam, note the new “Polish” colour scheme of the ENGLISHMAN Photo’s : Frits Janse ©

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AIRCRAFT / AIRPORT NEWS Air France Jet Landed Too Far Down Runway The Air France jet that skidded off the runway and burst into flames earlier this week landed farther down the runway than it should have, but it is too soon to know if that was the reason for the crash, aviation investigators said Friday.

All 309 people on board escaped with their lives after Flight 358 from Paris crashed at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport Tuesday afternoon. The flight data and voice recorders were recovered the next day.

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Real Levasseur, chief of the Transportation Safety Board team investigating the craft, said officials in France who have been downloading data from the cockpit voice recorders — the so-called black boxes — announced Friday most of the indicators from the boxes appeared intact and were not destroyed in the fire.

"I'm very happy to report we have good, solid data that will allow us to start removing wreckage from the site much earlier than we would have anticipated," Levasseur said.

Levasseur said all interviews with the co-pilot — whom Air France said was at the controls during Tuesday's landing — and cabin crew were complete.

"These people can now all go home to their families and loved ones, who I am sure have been very anxious to hold them again in their arms," he said, praising them again for having evacuated the plane in under two minutes.

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Veronique Brachet, an Air France spokeswoman, said the pilot remained in the hospital in Toronto with compressed vertebrae. She did not know whether the pilot had spoken with investigators.

Levasseur said the Airbus 340 landed too far down the 9,000-foot runway before skidding some 200 yards, landing nose down in a ravine amid torrential rains and winds.

"We do have some information that the aircraft did land long," Levasseur said at a news briefing. "We are still in the process of gathering all that data to find out what that means."

When pressed on whether landing long would have contributed to the crash, Levasseur said: "An aircraft like the 340 should land well toward the back; how long exactly depends on weight, heavy winds, there are a number of factors," he said. "We will certainly be looking at information; and if it turns out the aircraft did land further down the runway ... we will try to determine whether this had a major or critical effect."

Witnesses and some passengers have said that it appeared that Air France Flight 358 from Paris was coming in too fast and too long when it landed at about 4 p.m.

An Air France spokesman in Paris declined to comment, saying the carrier would wait for the result of a full investigation before publicly discussing the possible cause of the crash.

Some aviation experts said the aircraft could have been pushed by a strong cross winds at the same time the aircraft landed on a slick runway, decreasing tire traction and causing a hydroplaning effect.

"I think they landed a little fast, a little long and probably hydroplaned," said Capt. Tom Bunn, a retired commercial airline pilot of 30 years for Pan Am and United Airlines who runs fear-of-flying courses.

Levasseur on Thursday dismissed questions about whether the east-west 24L runway was long and safe enough, saying it met international standards. However, the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 64,000 airline pilots at 41 airlines in Canada and the United States, disputed this, saying the ravine at the end of the runway may have contributed to the crash.

In a statement Thursday, the union said the crash occurred "at an international airport that, unfortunately, does not meet international standards." Canada's Transport Minister Jean Lapierre said Friday he had been at the crash site and spoke with investigators about the ravine that runs parallel to one of the country's busiest freeways, Highway 401.

"Some people are telling me that if there wasn't a ravine, the plane would have ended up on the 401 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and you would have had more deaths than what you had," he said. "But all of this is going to be examined." Levasseur said there was no evidence, meanwhile, that lightning struck the Airbus A340 as it was landing, as reported by some witnesses. "The wings and wing tips are in pretty good shape."

He also said investigators have determined that all four engine thrust-reversers were in operation and working fine, "So that's a good sign."

The flight data and voice recorders were sent to TSB headquarters in Quebec. However, Levasseur said Thursday that it would take several days for special computer equipment to be sent from France to download the information and that would delay the investigation and removal of the wreckage.

Many die in jet crash off Sicily At least 14 people were killed when a Tunisian passenger plane made an emergency landing in the sea off the Italian island of Sicily. There were 39 passengers and crew on board the Tunis Air plane.

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At least 20 people have been rescued. Many were seriously injured and taken by helicopter to hospital and five are still missing. The plane was on its way from the southern Italian town of Bari to the Tunisian resort island of Djerba.

A full search and rescue operation quickly got under way at the crash site some 13km (8 miles) off the Sicilian coast, but rescuers now say no-one is left inside the plane. The first survivors were landed in the Sicilian town of Palermo from a coastguard vessel just over two hours after the crash.

Two small children are among the dead, rescuers said. Anxious relatives and friends gathered at Bari airport for news of the rescue operation. One woman said as she was carried off the coastguard vessel that it was a miracle anyone survived.

Italian divers said they had managed to secure floats around the fuselage to prevent the aircraft from sinking. Officials at Bari airport said most of the passengers were young Italian tourists. The crew is said to be Tunisian.

Earlier on Saturday, the pilot of the plane advised air traffic control that he was trying to make an emergency landing at Palermo airport, but came down in the sea instead. "The plane had engine problems and was trying to land in Palermo and had to land in the sea," a spokeswoman for Italy's air safety agency the Associated Press news agency.

The aircraft is said to be an ATR 42 - a French-made twin-engine turbo-prop aircraft that can carry up to 50 passengers.

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