Captain more worried about rescuers eating all his food than damage to Reef
THE captain of a stranded Chinese coal ship is concerned about Australian rescue teams drinking his crew's water and eating their food but not the oil spill threatening Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
The Courier-Mail reports Captain Wang Jichang told Brisbane's Chinese Consul-General Ren Gongping that the leaking of oil was "not serious" and had been exaggerated, but the dwindling food supplies on the Shen Neng 1 were a concern.
"They need some more water because the rescue team is consuming the water and food," Mr Ren said.
"They need that. That is a problem at the moment.
"The leakage is not very serious so far. So far he (Capt Wang) cannot see the oil on the sea."
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