The damaged multi-purpose ship Padfk Adventurer(pictured at Brisbane's Hamilton Wharves) remains in Australia whte operator Swire Shipping deddes on a plan to make temporary repairs.rnAt press time, Maritime Safety Queensland and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority were refusing to allow the vessel to move downriver to Fisherman Islands for discharge, or across the river to ForgaaCaimcrossdrydodc for repairs, until satisfied no further oil can leak from two hull punctures. The damage was sustained in the earty hours of 11 March when 31 containers of ammonium nitrate were swept from its deck in violent weather on the fringes of tropical cydoneHamish. The containers apparently caused a 15cm×15cm gash in the portside hull am a larger starboard hole, 1m×30cm, whidi was only discovered after the vessel readied the safety of portrnAn estimated 270 tonnes of bunkers were lost and washed up on beaches in Brisbane's Moreton Bay and on the Sunshine Coast.
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