"Fortunatly we have few things
"Fortunatly we have few things in our favour.
1) the ship is less than 12 months old so the hull is in good condition.
2) if you are going to drive a 45000 tonne ship onto a popular beach they picked the right place to do it for access to deep water and services quickly.
3) they have been able to stabilize the hull by flooding one of the cargo holds with water to settle the hull fast onto the sand and they have also been able to pump the oils and fuels to higher storage areas within the boat, so unless the ship falls apart there should be no or minimal environmental damadge.
There are now two big mother tugs as well as the normal tug fleet in the Harbour and although they havent advertised it, I am betting on the high tide with the new moon tomorow for a bit of a pull.
Cheers
Peter C"