TUCSON, AZ - Iyo "Bomb Boat" izita revashandi vezvikepe reMV Sankaty, inotakura marori anotakura mafuta. Inomira padyo nechikepe chevatyairi Island Home, icho chinogona kutakura vafambi vanosvika chiuru, sekureva kwaStephen Jones, Special Projects Director weVarapi veCivil Defense.
Jones akaongorora zvaanofunga kuti haana kuchengeteka paMartha's Vineyard Steamship Authority feri. Kwaanobva kune vashandi vakuru vezvikepe uye kutarisisa kwake. Akasanganawo nenhengo sere dzeSteamship Authority uye nekanzuru yekukurumidzira maneja Chuck Conior.
Mumwe mushandi wezvikepe mukuru akaudza Jones kuti tsaona kana kuparadza kwakakonzera kuputika pa“Bomb Boat” kwaizoparadza guta rose. Vamwe vashandi vezvikepe vakawedzera kuti hapana chengetedzo ye "Bomb Boat."
Ngarava idzi hadzina kufambisa basa, akadaro Jones, uye matanho ekuderedza mutengo anoita kuti vashandi vanete uye vavhiringike. Vashandi vanongowana maawa matatu kusvika mana ekurara pakati pemashifiti, uye zvino sezvo vabiki vabviswa, vanofanirwa kugadzirisa chikafu chavo. Pamusoro pezvo, Jones akaona kuti zvikepe zvehupenyu zviri pazvikepe zvakatsiviwa nehurongwa husina kunaka hwemafambisirwo ehupenyu apo vashandi vanoti havana kudzidziswa zvakanaka.
Mumwe mushandi akapa zano kuna Jones kuti zvikepe zvinotakura marori emafuta zvinofanirwa kubvumidzwa chete husiku, kana zvikepe zvinotakura vanhu zvisiri kutakura kana kurodha, kuderedza njodzi.
Jones anotya kuti tsaona inogona kukonzera kudzokororwa kwenjodzi yakaipisisa yemugungwa munhoroondo, kubonderana kweMV Doña Paz muna 1987, chikepe chakatakura vanhu pakati pezvitsuwa zvePhilippine, chine tangi remafuta.
"Yechitatu World kuchengetedza zviyero pazvikepe zveWoods Hole uye Vineyard Haven, Mass., Zvinoita kuti dzisachengeteke pakufamba," Jones anodaro. Anokurudzira kushandisa zvikepe zvinobva kune dzimwe zviteshi uye doko paOak Bluffs kana Edgartown.
Physicians for Civil Defense inogovera ruzivo rwekubatsira kuchengetedza hupenyu muchiitiko chehondo kana imwe njodzi.
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- Jones anotya kuti tsaona inogona kukonzera kudzokororwa kwenjodzi yakaipisisa yemugungwa munhoroondo, kubonderana kweMV Doña Paz muna 1987, chikepe chakatakura vanhu pakati pezvitsuwa zvePhilippine, chine tangi remafuta.
- Additionally, Jones found that the life boats on the ferries have been replaced by a faulty system of life rafts on which workers say they are not properly trained.
- A senior ferry worker informed Jones that an accident or sabotage causing an explosion on the “Bomb Boat”.
