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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 09:28:02 EDT
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:16:49 -0400, you wrote:
>If you don't get caught. I saw a sign in Florida a while back that
>essentially said, "If you dump oil in the water, the fine is $5000. If
>you mix soap with oil and dump that, the fine is $20,000." Of course,
>if you don't pump it into the ocean, I guess you can mix anything with
>it. 8)
>
Depends on where you are. We had an incident in the Bahamas. A power boat
came into the slip beside us and everyone got off. I was sitting there
trying to decide where we should go next, and reading stuff to Bob out of
the guide and I looked over and there's pink stuff running down the side of
the boat. I said - hey what's that?
He'd left a transfer pump on and was pumping diesel overboard. Bob went and
got the harbor master, and he went to customs, and the guy moseyed back to
the boat. He kept saying it was an honest mistake. That wouldn't cut it in
the states. The marina people just shrugged and said the tide would take
care of it and it was good that it wasn't gasoline.
He washed his boat down with detergent to help disperse it, and we sat
there in a puddle of diesel (which kept the lobster sellers away from the
boat - we were ambivalent about buying lobsters anyway - but they saw the
stuff and backed their boat away) until the tide took it away.
We get sheets and sausages from New Pig that are oil-phylic (they take up
petroleum products and not water). They aren't the cheapest, but are
cheaper than the marine stores.
>
>"Craig M. Poole" wrote:
>>
>> I had a very similar episode - with a leaking diesel tank.....i had a small
>> drip at the bottom of a very old black iron fuel tank. As i was fiddling
>> and trying to find the source I found it....and opened it up drastically.
>> all of a sudden 50 gals of diesel started pouring into the bilge.
>> thankfully i was able to shut off the bilge pump before more than a gal went
>> over board but if I hadn't been there - whoa nelly. As it was, pumping
>> out 50 gals from the bilge is definitely no fun at all and the clean up was
>> a big mess. btw.....dawn works wonders if the spill is not tooooo big.
>>
>> ----------
>> >From: Jay Gitomer <>
>> >To:
>> >Subject: RE: lv-ab: Boat Fire in Baltimore
>> >Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2001, 3:17 PM
>> >
>>
>> > Well, we're powerboaters so I can't quite agree with
>> > this listmember, but we did have an interesting event
>> > in our marina last weekend that backs up Mike's point.
>> >
>> > A guy with a 30' or 35' footer had just fueled up with
>> > 250 gallons of diesel. He hadn't used the boat much,
>> > evidently (I don't have all the facts), but we heard
>> > he knew he had a leak in the fuel system. I don't know
>> > if that's true. We heard a fuel line had crumbled.
>> >
>> > He was sitting on the boat reading and the bilge pumps
>> > were doing their job, pumping 250 gal. of diesel
>> > overboard.
>> >
>> > The state EPA, the Coast Guard, HazMat teams and DNR
>> > swarmed the marina. Boomed off parts of the marina.
>> > Because of the toxic fire in Baltimore, the
>> > contractors couldn't get there till almost midnight.
>> > Work went on all night.
>> >
>> > For a while, our entire boat was sitting in a sea of
>> > diesel. The surface of the water looked like a solid
>> > sheet baby oil. The smell was overwhelming.
>> >
>> > The CG said the contractors had skimmers come in, but
>> > we just saw them using a lot of absorbent padding to
>> > lift out the fuel. It was a pretty low-tech operation.
>> > The next morning after they left, there was still
>> > plenty of diesel on the water.
>> >
>> > We asked the Coast Guard what this was going to cost
>> > the guy. They said it was up to the hearing officer,
>> > but estimated something in the area of $100-120,000.
>> >
>> > That's a costly day on the water, especially
>> > considering the guy hadn't even left the marina. Boat
>> > U/S, which he has, covers up to 100K so hopefully (for
>> > him), it won't be over that much.
>> >
>> > Jay
grandma Rosalie
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