{"id":3778,"date":"2011-04-03T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T22:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.clicdublin.ie\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:33:59","slug":"massive-cargo-ship-refloated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"Massive cargo ship refloated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_3779\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3779\" title=\"cargo ship\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clicnews.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cargo-ship-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">the 7,000 tonne cargo ship.photo:RT\u00c9<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 7,000 tonne cargo ship that got stuck at Rossaveal harbour in Galway bay on Thursday has been refloated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The ship, called \u201cThe Pantanal\u201d, was due to pick up two small passenger ferries which were sold to a buyer in Mauritius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Minister for Marine Simon Coveney welcomed the successful refloating of the ship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">He said that \u201ca very real threat to the marine environment\u201d had been avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Mr Coveney said that the ship ignored a severe weather warning and that is why the incident happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Do you know how heavy 7,000 tonnes is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Well&#8230; a standard bag of sugar weighs 1 kilogram (Kg) and there is 1,000 kg in 1 tonne. So the cargo ship would be equal to the weight of 7 million bags of sugar!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 the 7,000 tonne cargo ship.photo:RT\u00c9 The 7,000 tonne cargo ship that got stuck at Rossaveal harbour in Galway bay on Thursday has been refloated. The ship, called \u201cThe Pantanal\u201d, was due to pick up two small passenger ferries which were sold to a buyer in Mauritius. Minister for Marine Simon Coveney welcomed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressdemo.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}