SCAT is short for Shoreline Cleanup & Assessment Technique. SCAT helps responders assess and document shorelines contaminated by an oil spill. The SCAT program will generate information on the oiling conditions and will help the management team to decide on the appropriate response treatment techniques and treatment completion. SCAT teams are typically made up of [...]
While marine spill response is generally associated with vessels on the water deploying boom and recovering oil product, there is also a significant amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to support that on-water activity. We don’t always talk about it, but in a successful marine spill response, this work is just as [...]
SITREP Incident: BLIGH ISLAND SHIPWRECK Incident Start Date DECEMBER 3, 2020 Location: BLIGH ISLAND, VANCOUVER ISLAND Situational Overview As a result of a number of sightings of sheening and oiling in the vicinity of Bligh Island / Zuciarte Channel, CCG confirms that the shipwreck of the M/V Schiedyk, a 483’ bulk carrier that sank in [...]
SITREP Incident: BLIGH ISLAND SHIPWRECK Incident Start Date DECEMBER 3, 2020 Location: BLIGH ISLAND, VANCOUVER ISLAND Situational Overview As a result of a number of sightings of sheening and oiling in the vicinity of Bligh Island / Zuciarte Channel, CCG confirms that the shipwreck of the M/V Schiedyk, a 483’ bulk carrier that sank in [...]
SITREP Incident: BLIGH ISLAND SHIPWRECK Incident Start Date DECEMBER 3, 2020 Location: BLIGH ISLAND, VANCOUVER ISLAND Situational Overview As a result of a number of sightings of sheening and oiling in the vicinity of Bligh Island / Zuciarte Channel, CCG confirms that the shipwreck of the M/V Schiedyk, a 483’ bulk carrier that sank in [...]
SITREP Incident: BLIGH ISLAND SHIPWRECK Incident Start Date DECEMBER 3, 2020 Location: BLIGH ISLAND, VANCOUVER ISLAND Situational Overview As a result of a number of sightings of sheening and oiling in the vicinity of Bligh Island / Zuciarte Channel, CCG confirms that the shipwreck of the M/V Schiedyk, a 483’ bulk carrier that sank in [...]
The virtual Incident Command Post (ICP) and on-water crews will continue to respond to the Bligh Island shipwreck leak over the holiday season. The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation has now joined Unified Command and is working with the Canadian Coast Guard and BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy to manage the response. Representatives from [...]
December 11, 2020: In mid-September the Canadian Coast Guard received several reports of sheen on the water in Zuciarte Channel near the east end of Bligh Island in Nootka Sound, British Columbia. An initial investigation did not turn up a source and it was thought that the sheen was created by bilge discharge from vessels [...]