Sarah-Desgagnes

On Feb 14, 2016, at 2.15 p.m. zjr St Davids RNLI all-weather lifeboat §Garside§ was tasked to the §Sarah Desgagnes§ to help evacuate a 26-year-old male Canadian national crew man who was suffering with an infected foot and leg. The tanker was in St Brides Bay and once on scene the lifeboat came alongside the and two of the volunteer lifeboat crew members went on board to assess the casualty, before he was transferred onto the lifeboat. St Davids RNLI lifeboat then returned to the lifeboat station at St Justinian, where the casualty was met by St Davids Coastguards, before being taken to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest for treatment. Report with photo: http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/St-Davids-RNLI-volunteers-evacuate-injured-man-from-tanker.aspx

Environment Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) were dealing with the clean-up and investigation of a diesel fuel leak from a tanker in Northern Quebec on Friday, according to cbc. The spillage – believed to be around 3,000 litres – occurred when the vessel Sarah Desgagnes (17,998 dwt, built 2007) was performing a fuel transfer to the community of Salluit on Wednesday, providing the town’s fuel supplies for the winter. But with the transfer of 1.8 million litres nearly complete, the ship’s own propeller accidentally snapped the delivery hose, releasing the unknown quantity of diesel into the water on Wednesday night. Original estimates of 10,000 litres of diesel being leaked were downgraded by the CCG on Friday to around 3,000 litres Transport Desgagnes, owners of the ship, applied recovery booms skimmers and absorbent materials and summoned the CCG. Some local residents had complained of strong odours in the immediate wake of the spillage. http://splash247.com/authorities-monitor-diesel-fuel-spill-tanker-northern-quebec/

A ship that passed through the American Narrows portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway earlier this week did not have a steering problem, according to the company which owns the vessel. Earlier, Jefferson County officials and environmental advocates said they were concerned by the passage of the 'Sarah Desgagnes' Tuesday night. The ship, a tanker, was carrying a load of gasoline. Before arriving at the narrows, the ship had been docked because of a steering issue, and passed through the narrows with a tug by its side. Those two facts, taken together, raised doubts along the St. Lawrence. "Our emergency management director wasn't even called as a courtesy," county legislator Phil Reed told 7 News. "It's a highway," he said. "We should have been notified." (The narrows is a stretch of the Seaway between Alexandria Bay and Fisher's Landing. It's widely regarded as a tricky part of the waterway to navigate.) Jennifer Caddick, the outgoing director of 'Save The River,' also had doubts. http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/Friday-Was-Ship--160836125.html