Beijing, March 14 According to the news website of the State Oceanic Administration, State Oceanic Administration (SOA) today explicitly requested the Guangdong Provincial Oceanic and Fishery Bureau, and State Oceanic Administration, the South China Sea Branch of close attention to the development trend of South Korean cargo ship shipwreck and disposal in a timely manner to organize the monitoring of marine environment monitoring.

March 13, 2012 5:00 p.m. Korean cargo ship Athena (KENOS, ATHENA) waves near the waters cover in Guangdong Province distress tilt sank the cargo ship carrying 7000 tons of sulfuric acid and 140 tons of residual fuel oil.

Upon receipt of the accident report, the State Oceanic Administration attaches great importance to study the immediate deployment of emergency work. The South China Sea Branch of State Oceanic Administration, immediately dispatched to monitor the incident area to carry out marine environmental monitoring.

March 14, 7112 China’s maritime surveillance aircraft to the accident sea cruise monitor. , State Oceanic Administration, explicitly require Guangdong Provincial Oceanic and Fishery Bureau, and State Oceanic Administration, South China Sea Branch to pay close attention to the boat incident momentum of development and disposition of timely organize the monitoring of marine environmental monitoring, and closely monitoring the oil spill may lead to shipwreck sulfuric acid and other hazardous chemicals leak nearby waters, and make the communication of information, timely release of the marine environment monitoring information to relevant departments and the general public, effective protection of the production and life safety of the relevant waters.

Currently, the State Oceanic Administration is seawater sample analysis and detection, the relevant information will be released.

【新聞快訊】13日13時(shí)30分左右，在廣東汕尾海域，從韓國(guó)運(yùn)貨到我國(guó)廣東珠海的韓國(guó)籍化學(xué)品船“雅典娜”號(hào)失去動(dòng)力，面臨沉沒(méi)危險(xiǎn)，汕尾邊防支隊(duì)官兵與當(dāng)?shù)貪O民緊急施救。該貨輪載有7000噸硫酸及140噸剩余燃料油。廣東海事局稱(chēng)，“雅典娜”沉船前關(guān)閉了所有閥門(mén)，截至14日下午海域環(huán)境監(jiān)測(cè)結(jié)果暫未發(fā)現(xiàn)化學(xué)品泄漏，船上所有船員在棄船后已被全部救起。

據(jù)事故船船長(zhǎng)陳述，事發(fā)時(shí)“雅典娜”右壓載艙進(jìn)水，船舶右傾，船上裝有散裝硫酸，共計(jì)16個(gè)艙室，共7000噸。棄船前，船拋?zhàn)箦^，并且關(guān)閉了貨倉(cāng)和油艙閥門(mén)。接到有關(guān)事故情況的報(bào)告后，國(guó)家海洋局南海分局立即派出監(jiān)測(cè)人員對(duì)事發(fā)海域開(kāi)展海洋環(huán)境監(jiān)測(cè)。目前，海事部門(mén)正密切加強(qiáng)對(duì)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)的監(jiān)控，與參與救援各方研究沉船的打撈方案，沉船的相關(guān)救助防污染處理工作仍在有序進(jìn)行。