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\u201cThe IMO had a very clear mandate when it first landed in Mauritius,\u201d says \u00a0Forbes contributor Nishan Degnarain<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cFocus only on the oil spill.\u00a0 The salvage operation was out of scope.\u00a0 This was agreed with the Government of Mauritius under the framework of the OPRC 90, <\/a>convention.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the year that six major agreements<\/a> were where signed Fobes suggests that the UN has the partnerships to organize the world\u2019s\u00a0best scientists, marine investigators, and pollution experts. Instead, they sent a man who has been giving locals terrible advice at town meetings<\/a>. The \u2018IMO Expert<\/a>\u2018 who appeared on national television suggesting<\/a> that exposure to bunker fuel is not a serious cancer concern and \u00a0telling Mauritians that oil is \u201cjust like skin cream<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe actions of the IMO in what was once the paradise island of Mauritius has shown that this is a regulator that is out of touch and out of date.\u201d says Degnarain<\/a>. \u201cIt is the year 2020. The world deserves better.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can read the full report here:<\/em> <\/p>\n If the IMO was smart they would not rely on any single expert. Instead, they would ask member nations to submit names of the best scientists, maritime experts, and investigators. They could then use their close relationship with independent, nonpartisan organizations that have the right people on staff<\/a> to organize and manage a response team led by someone with a track record of success. Someone like Thad Allen<\/a>. -JK<\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe IMO had a very clear mandate when it first landed in Mauritius,\u201d says \u00a0Forbes contributor Nishan Degnarain. \u00a0\u201cFocus only on the oil spill.\u00a0 The salvage operation was out of scope.\u00a0 This was agreed with the Government of Mauritius under the framework of the OPRC 90, convention.\u201d In the year that six major agreements were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5976,5717,1697,4689,9614,832,1939,9488],"class_list":["post-17352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-deep","tag-drills","tag-efforts","tag-fail","tag-forbes","tag-imo","tag-salvage","tag-wakashio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/16037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
IMO In Hot Water Following Mauritius Oil Spill And Botched Wakashio Salvage Operation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n