Crowley Situation Report #2:
Busby Island Bay Response
Project Plan
SITREP #2- December 29, 2009 @ 1700 hrs
Pathfinder Fuel Transfer
At 1925hrs 28DEC09, the fuel transfer operations from the PATHFINDER to the Petro Star tank farm were completed. Volumes received at the tank farm were gauged by an independent testing company, Caleb Brett.
At 1102 hrs 29DEC09 the Tug PATHFINDER was flat towed by the tug INVADER from the Valdez Petroleum Dock (VPT) to the Valdez Container Dock (VCT) in Port Valdez. The vessel was attended by two line boats and the VALDEZ STAR.
At 1204hrs, the PATHFINDER was moored at the (VCT). The tug is fully boomed and there is a 24 hour security watch aboard.
Emerald Environmental Services began removing the liquid contents of the PATHFINDER dirty oil tank at 1445hrs. The operation will continue with the vessels dirty water tanks, and vessel engine room bilge. Transfer operations are being conducted in accordance with Crowley’s documented procedures. In addition, her fuel tanks, which were previous discharged at the VPT, will be vacuumed stripped of any residual fuel.
As of 1700 today, December 29:
The tug Pathfinder is secured and boomed at the Valdez Container Dock (VCT) in Port Valdez. There is 24 hour security.
Transfer operations continue with Emerald Environmental Services.
Diesel fuel volumes are in final calculations.
An Independent Marine Surveyor is scheduled to visit the vessel on 30DEC09.
Pathfinder Towage
Crowley is in the process of preparing a towing plan for repositioning the PATHFINDER to a repair facility, location not yet determined. The tow plan will be approved by the United States Coast Guard prior to further movement of the vessel.
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The boat surveyor’s Dubairole in its investigation and reporting.
ReplyDeleteBecause my principal experience as a surveyor over the years has been
as an underwriters’ surveyor, my comments in this paper are
understandably slanted towards insurance claims but many of the
principles will not be lost on surveyors appointed by other principals.
The role of independent marine surveyors
It is well established that a surveyor’s principal role is to establish
the facts as they relate to nature, cause and extent (three words
with which I am sure you are all very familiar) when instructed to
carry out a damage or loss survey but, of the three, we are
principally concerned in this paper with cause/causation.
However, before becoming immersed in discussion on this
fundamental role I am going to remind you briefly that a surveyor
has at least two other important functions.
A marine insurance policy will often contain a clause specifically
alerting the assured to their responsibilities to take appropriate
steps to mitigate a loss and to claim on third parties.
The assured is required to do both of these as a condition of
acceptance of any claim under the policy but in any event, under
English law, it a common law requirement for a claimant to
mitigate a loss, as it is under the law of many other countries.
Mitigation of loss
Hull and machinery Surveyors, from their wide experience of marine claims in one form
or another, are often in a very good position to advise a claimant on
both their need to mitigate a loss, and also in many cases on the
best method of doing so.
However, surveyors must bear in mind that it is not their role to
actually involve themselves with the appropriate action unless
otherwise instructed by their principals.