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Titan Helps Prevent Mess

M/V North Islands dragged its anchor and ran aground off the coast of Chile during a storm in early September. In seven to eight meter seas, the vessel quickly broke in two at the forward end of the No. 4 hold. At the time of the accident it had about 400 tons of heavy fuel aboard, 220 tons of which was located in hold No. 3 port and starboard double bottoms.

While this oil was immediately lost to the sea, the challenge to keep the remaining fuel from soil- ing the water further was tossed to

Titan Maritime Industries of Ft.

Lauderdale, Fla.

Titan was chosen by the vessel's underwriters to remove the pollu- tants, and the method chosen was to pump the oil to a small self-pro- pelled tank barge anchored 492-ft. seaward of the wreck, beyond the surf zone.

Because of the difficulty in han- dling heavy equipment, and due to the high viscous nature of oil involved, a Desmi DOP 160 pump (see related story on next page for details) was selected.

Divers had to hot tap the double bottom tanks in the engine room and remove the oil from the top of the tanks as they were breached and the oil could not be pumped through the pipe work.

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Emergency Towing System

Enhances Safety

Pictured above is a diagram of the new 50-ton emergency towing system.

A new addition to the range of D- box towing systems is a 50-ton sys- tem created by Leenstra and used to target the company's fleet of small petro-chemical tankers, ves- sels which do not fall under the

IMO 3563 ruling (below 20,000 tons), but wish to comply with regional rulings, such as the

Washington State spill prevention program.

An immediate advantage to fit- ting the system, according to

Leenstra, is a five to 10 percent reduction of insurance premiums.

The D-box towing system is flex- ibly designed to allow its fitting to suit any ship, and also to be main- tenance free and competitively priced.

The D-Box system, which is also available in ETS 100 ton and ETS 200 ton models, is an easily adapt- able deployment box design which houses the aluminum buoy, tipto eight messenger, the Deltaflex towing pennant and chafing chain.

The complete layout and structur- al appraisal can be handled by

Leenstra, if needed.

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