1.0 Introduction
The great beer reef is located off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,600 miles 2,575 kilometres. More than 1,500 fish species live on the reef and The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands thirty species of whales, dolphins and porpoises have been recorded in the Great Barrier Reef including the Pacific humpback dolphin and the humpback whales. The reef and is home to 500,000 sea birds and a major turtle nesting. 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill .wikipedia.com {viewed 20/5}2015 AIM
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The Chinese ship went 10 km outside the shipping lane damaging the reef and the wild life. The Australian Transport Safety was investigated how and who caused the problem and they found that the chief officer on watch had neglected to program a proposed course change into the ship's GPS navigation system due to The report stated, that the chief officer-on-watch failed to plot the ship's position on the Nautical chart in appropriate intervals and for that reason was not aware of the proximity of the shoal. The Great Barrier Reef Vessel Traffic Service was not able to tell the captain on bored due to limited coverage of the area by their systems. The damage on the ship was done as the ship spun out of control and moving backwards and forwards across the Australian water top of a shoal which the ship's engines failed after the initial impact leaving the Shen Neng 1 at the whim of the winds and the tides. The Result some of the damaged areas have become uninhabitable for marine life and there are estimates from experts that the reef may take up to 10 to 20 years to recover from the incident and more than 1,500 fish species live on the reef including the clownfish red bass red throat emperor and several species and most of this species died because of the oils that was spilled in the Great Barrier Reef and it wasn’t just the fish species that died on the
The great beer reef is located off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,600 miles 2,575 kilometres. More than 1,500 fish species live on the reef and The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands thirty species of whales, dolphins and porpoises have been recorded in the Great Barrier Reef including the Pacific humpback dolphin and the humpback whales. The reef and is home to 500,000 sea birds and a major turtle nesting. 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill .wikipedia.com {viewed 20/5}2015 AIM
This report will reveal on the great beer reef and investigate what happed to the great beer reef and …show more content…
The Chinese ship went 10 km outside the shipping lane damaging the reef and the wild life. The Australian Transport Safety was investigated how and who caused the problem and they found that the chief officer on watch had neglected to program a proposed course change into the ship's GPS navigation system due to The report stated, that the chief officer-on-watch failed to plot the ship's position on the Nautical chart in appropriate intervals and for that reason was not aware of the proximity of the shoal. The Great Barrier Reef Vessel Traffic Service was not able to tell the captain on bored due to limited coverage of the area by their systems. The damage on the ship was done as the ship spun out of control and moving backwards and forwards across the Australian water top of a shoal which the ship's engines failed after the initial impact leaving the Shen Neng 1 at the whim of the winds and the tides. The Result some of the damaged areas have become uninhabitable for marine life and there are estimates from experts that the reef may take up to 10 to 20 years to recover from the incident and more than 1,500 fish species live on the reef including the clownfish red bass red throat emperor and several species and most of this species died because of the oils that was spilled in the Great Barrier Reef and it wasn’t just the fish species that died on the