Mariner incident

Marine Incident Database System (MIDS) - A database maintained by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB). 

The other global environmental problem, stratospheric ozone depletion, was less controversial and more imminent. The U.S. Senate Committee Report supporting the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 states, Destruction of the ozone layer is caused primarily by the release into the atmosphere of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar manufactured substances—persistent chemicals that rise into the stratosphere where they catalyze the destruction of stratospheric ozone. A decrease in stratospheric ozone will allow more ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach Earth, resulting in increased rates of disease in humans, including increased incidence of skin cancer, cataracts, and, potentially, suppression of the immune system. Increased UV radiation has also been shown to damage crops and marine resources."... 

Consultants are equipped to monitor the quality of freshwater, estuarine and marine environments and can make field measurements of a variety of water-quality parameters in response to pollution incidents. For example, reasons for the mortality of marine shellfish and farmed freshwater fish have been determined using portable water-analysis equipment. Various items of field equipment are, of course, also employed in baseline studies and monitoring, respectively, before and after the introduction of new effluent-disposal schemes. 

Another major incident concerning methyl mercury was the severe pollution of Minamata bay in Japan (see Box 8.1). Here fish, fish-eating and scavenging birds, and humans feeding upon fish all died from organomercury poisoning. There may have been localized declines of marine species in this area due to methyl mercury, but there is no clear evidence of this. 

As discussed earlier (see Chapter 6, Section 6.2.5), several studies have linked the presence of high PAH levels in the marine enviromnent with a high incidence of tumors in fish. The ecological significance of these observations, however, is not known. 

Long ED, MacDonald D, Smith SL, Calder FD. 1995. Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments. Environ Manage 19 81-97. 

The U.S. Marine Corps Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF)... 

The U.S. Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), 350 Marines and Navy personnel of both sexes drawn from forty-four military occupational specialties, uses new tactics, procedures, and equipment to provide mass decontamination to local... 

DOD Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, DOD Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, DOD Naval Medical Research Institute, HHS National Medical Response Teams, HHS Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, HHS Metropolitan Medical Strike Teams, HHS Experts from Public Health Safety agencies, DOE Radiation Emergency Assistance Center and Training Site. 

DOD Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, variety of potential HHS units. 

Celanese Bayport Marine Terminal June 13, 1998 Methyl Acrylate Tank V-9227 Polymerization Incident Public Information Disclosure, Celanese, Pasadena, Texas, 1999. 

The laboratory-scale test results lead naturally to the conclusion that methane-rich LNG, as transported in commerce today, would not undergo an RPT if spiUs were to occur in a marine accident. Normal seawater temperatures are much higher than the superheat-limit temperature of this LNG. However, recent LNG spill tests involving up to 40 m of methane-rich liquids have, on occasion, produced strong RPTs (see Section III,J). In some of these incidents, the RPTs may have occurred after preferential evaporation of the methane to leave an LNG heel much... 

Branson (1955) was unable to document that Carver ever published in any scientific peer review journal. However, he did point out that there were African American contemparies of Carver who were making significant and documented contributions to science. A few Alrican Americans (e.g. Ernest E. Just and Charles H. Turner) did conduct research at major laboratories, such as the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. However, they often were confronted by the prevailing racial attitudes of the time. Specifically, Just and his family were subjected to racist incidents in both the scientific and non-scientific communities (Manning, 1983). 

Chronic exposures to 250 and 500 mg/kg/day of both marine diesel fuel and JP-5 induced dermatitis and ulcerations of the skin in mice (NTP/NIH 1986). The incidence and severity of dermatitis and the incidence of ulcers induced by marine diesel fuel were dose dependent for the chronic exposures. The severity, but not the incidence, of dermatitis induced by JP-5 was dose dependent for the chronic exposures. Also, the incidence of ulcers was dose dependent in chronic studies with JP-5. Dermatitis was also noted in another study in mice that were chronically exposed to either JP-5 or marine diesel fuel effective doses were not reported (Easley et al. 1982). 

No skin cancer was reported in B6C3Fj mice chronically exposed to 250 and 500 mg/kg/day of JP-5 (NTP/NIH 1986). There was a 2-6% incidence of squamous cell papilloma and/or carcinoma of the skin in B6C3Fj mice chronically exposed to 250 (females only) or 500 (both sexes) mg/kg/day marine diesel fuel. The effect did not occur in the control groups the statistical significance of these effects was not reported. Hepatocellular adenoma or carcinoma were noted in males exposed to 250 and 500 mg/kg/day... 

Ciguatera in the Paciflc Incidence and Implications for Marine Resource Development... 

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