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Salvage experts work to stabilise Chinese ship aground on Great Barrier Reef http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1270602147
Salvage workers and tugboats were today attempting to stabilise a coal-carrying ship that ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef in order to prevent it breaking up and further damaging the world's largest coral structure.
The Chinese-registered Shen Neng 1 was off course and travelling at full speed when it hit the Douglas Shoals - an area in which shipping is restricted - late on Saturday.
Environmentalists warned that the effects could be devastating if the vessel broke up.
"We would potentially be looking at an environmental disaster," Gilly Llewellyn, the director of conservation for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Australia, told Reuters. "It would be an extremely large spill."
Around two of the 950 tonnes of fuel on board the ship have leaked, creating a slick stretching for two miles (3km).
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