{"id":3448,"date":"2010-12-25T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T21:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2010-12-29T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T16:18:14","slug":"ship-with-sick-crew-passes-through-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/25\/ship-with-sick-crew-passes-through-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship with sick crew passes through North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small drama on the Seaway is playing out on Christmas Day.\u00a0 A Liberian-registered German vessel, Hermann Schoening, is passing through the St. Lawrence River today and is expected to reach Massena&#8217;s locks this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen members of the ship&#8217;s Chinese crew were hospitalized yesterday after phosphine gas leaked from cargo holds into living and working spaces.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/news\/canada\/2010\/12\/24\/16668451.html\">According to the Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gas formed after fumigation pellets used on board the vessel  somehow became moist or wet. Phosphine is a chemical used to fumigate or  control pests in processed foods, stored tobacco, animal feeds and  non-food products.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Canada said it has set out a number of safety conditions  for the ship&#8217;s continued passage, including a clearance certificate by a  fumigator, receipt of medical reports for all crew members, a plan for  the permanent sealing of the point of gas leakage prior to departure  from Montreal, and periodic monitoring and reporting to Transport Canada  marine safety of the gas levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve received unconfirmed reports from the wife of a Seaway pilot that the crew is &#8220;sick, cold, weak, hungry, feel very much alone, forgotten and are frightened&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small drama on the Seaway is playing out on Christmas Day.\u00a0 A Liberian-registered German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4803,4871,4802],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}