THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1979
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When the Horsemen’s Association gave a presentation on
donkeys and mules Wednesday night, one member found
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baby Sicilian donkey and other long-eared cousins of the horse
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By CINDY COLVIN
Battalion Reporter
Since Nov. 1 oil from the collision
of two oil tankers off Galveston Is
land has been washing up on Texas
beaches and three men from Texas
A&M University have been assisting
in the clean-up.
Roy Hann, Harry Young and
David James have been in Galveston
since the collision helping the Coast
Guard and local volunteers in clean
up operations.
Oil from the collision has been
washing onshore in the form of sticky
lumps and heavy liquid mousse, said
Young. Since the distance between
the ship and the beach is only 4 or 5
miles, Young said that the oil stayed
on the beach for three days before
crews were prepared to clean it up.
In most cases. Young said, it is not
a good idea to let oil sit on the beach
that long as it tends to be soaked up
by the sand. In the case of the Gal
veston oil spill, the hard-packed
sand slows soak-up.
Liquid mousse, an oil and water
emulsion, is most dangerous to the
beach, as it picks up sand when it
becomes involved in any motion,
like tidal cycles, said Young. As the
oil becomes heavier with the sand, it
will be carried offshore and sink
where it could be toxic to oceanic
life.
In addition to oil hitting Jamiaca
Beach and West Beach on Galveston
Island, current meters placed near
Freeport by the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve Project, also of Texas A&M,
registered an oil slick moving toward
the south, said David Smith who
works on the project. Smith
observed the seven mile-long oil
slick which varied from five to 30 feet
wide as it hit the Texas coast at San
Jose Island on Nov. 9. San Jose Is
land was heavily innundated by oil
from this year’s oil well spill off the
Mexican coast.
As far as liability for the collision
and its aftermath, Young said that
because the collision occurred out
side U. S. waters, it cannot be settled
by using the Clean Water Act. And
two international laws won’t help
either, because the U.S. is not signa
tory to them. Only international pri
vate insurance organizations will
help, said Young. One in particular,
Tanker Owners Voluntary Agree
ment Concerning Liability for Oil
Pollution, will apply in this case in
volving the two tankers of Liberian
registry.
According to Young, 98 percent of
the world’s tanker fleets subscribe.
TOVALOP uses its own standards
for insurance and standards for the
vessels.
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Dr. John Reynolds, professor of management, said upper echelon
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