An Australian Maritime Safety Authority sub-sea survey to locate the missing containers was due to wrap up earlier this month, but poor weather and sea conditions have pushed the search schedule back
An Australian Maritime Safety Authority sub-sea survey to locate the missing containers was due to wrap up earlier this month, but poor weather and sea conditions have pushed the search schedule back. The survey was now due to finish this week, if conditions remained safe enough to send the hydrographic survey vessel out to sea. Clean up of debris continued, with 1039 cubic metres salvaged across Port Stephens and the Mid North Coast. more than 40 days since the 'YM Efficiency' lost 81 containers overboard in the waters off the Hunter’s coastline. NSW Maritime staff overseeing clean-up operations met with the Professional Fisherman Association and a number of select trawler operators last week. The plan was to overlay container location mapping with the trawler operator’s data to look for priority search areas. Representatives from the NSW Department of Primary Industries also attended the meeting to advise on expectations and priorities in areas within NSW state waters and within the Port Stephens Great Lakes Marine Park and Solitary Islands Maritime Parks.