Wood cargo makes eight-mile slick

[dipsydoodle]

Coastguards are monitoring hundreds of tonnes of timber that fell from a cargo ship in the English Channel.

The 1,500-tonne load, which was lost in rough seas off the East Sussex coast on Monday morning, could reach the Kent shore in the next two days.

A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which is monitoring the wood, said it was now spread across eight miles (13km).

The main bulk of it is 12 miles (19km) south of Rye, East Sussex, he added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7839397.stm

If anyone is in the area I could with some 9 by 4's. :rofl:

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Wind in the area forecast for 30mph from Thursday to Saturday

and that's on land. Hope most of it's washed ashore by then.

[fedsron2us]

2. When a load washed up at Worthing last year this is what it looked like

The poice patrolled the beach in a token attempt to stop it being looted (though all they did was to advise people not to take anything until they were up the other end of the beach.) In reality not much got taken because it was simply to awkward to move and the action of salt water on the wood meant it had little commercial value.

[Nihil]

3. Mmmm ... biofuel!

:evilgrin: