{"id":8757,"date":"2002-10-01T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2002\/10\/01\/usa-78\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:23:03","slug":"usa-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/usa-78\/","title":{"rendered":"USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8065\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/08\/usa_b.jpg\" alt=\"usa_b\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>In-water hull cleaning prohibited<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before divers are hired to scour vessel&#8217;s hulls, members should familiatise themselves with a recent joint environment advisory that prohibits commercial divers from doing in-water cleaning of vessels painted with sloughing and ablative antifouling paints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Washington Department of Ecology and the Department of Natural Resources decision also prohibits the use of mechanical or hydraulic devices for in-water hull cleaning and the manual scraping of hard growth off surfaces painted with antifoulants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agencies say that the waste generated by the diver cleaning process pollutes, and the copper and metals used in ablative paints are toxic to marine life. To further ensure co-operation, the agencies are holding port districts, boat yards, marinas and commercial divers liable for any cleanup and natural resource damage caused.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Source : BIMCO Bulletin Vol 97 No.5<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">01 Oct 2002<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1)\">back<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-water hull cleaning prohibited Before divers are hired to scour vessel&#8217;s hulls, members should familiatise themselves with a recent joint environment advisory that prohibits commercial divers from doing in-water cleaning of vessels painted with sloughing and ablative antifouling paints. The Washington Department of Ecology and the Department of Natural Resources decision also prohibits the use [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-information","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21720,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/21720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}