“Brazil doesn’t take care of its history.Earlier this month on April 6th, Green Hell skyrocketed up the Steam and Twitch charts when Creepy Jar released the game’s much-anticipated Co-op Mode Update. “Our idea was to rescue patriotism, our pride of being Brazilian,” he said. He was mostly ignored by the navy, but he hoped until the last days that the admirals would have a change of heart. In a statement in response to questions from The New York Times, IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental agency, said São Paulo’s chemicals could harm the ozone layer, cause the death of marine wildlife and deteriorate ecosystems in important marine biodiversity hot spots.Įven if São Paulo was unwelcome in ports around the world, the ship will not meet its end totally unloved.įor five years, Emerson Miura, a veteran of the Brazilian Air Force, had been working on a project to turn the São Paulo into a floating museum. A navy release cited “deteriorating hull buoyancy conditions and the inevitability of spontaneous/uncontrolled sinking.” So, on Wednesday night, officials announced plans to sink the ship. But a navy report from two weeks ago said that, although the vessel could last another month before sinking, it was too unstable to bring into coastal waters. In the same meeting, officials said they considered sinking the ship to be one of their few options.Ī report in December said the ship was, at that time, seaworthy enough to be towed to a port. So, they ordered it about 200 miles offshore. In a prepared statement, it said that, despite no longer being the ship’s owner, it has followed the case with attention and that owners of the ship had so far not fulfilled the requirements for docking permission.Īt a meeting in December, naval officials said they were concerned the ship would sink close to the coast and create a navigation hazard. The Brazilian Navy did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this article. Officials deny this, on the grounds that the ship is in Brazilian waters. Activists say Brazil is violating the convention by not allowing the ship to dock. Under the Basel Convention, countries are required to re-import toxic waste that they are unable to successfully export. By January, the MSK reported that it had lost $5 million on the venture.Įnvironmental groups said they were baffled that the navy wouldn’t take the ship back and was refusing to say why it wouldn’t.
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The company needed a harbor to patch up the damage, and the tugboat was guzzling 20 tons of fuel a day. Months passed, and, as minor damage started appearing in the hull, MSK Maritime Services & Trading, a partner in the recycling project with Sok Denizcilik, grew desperate. So, the ship and the tug started doing circles. The navy never offered its own bases, for reasons officials have never explained. Spooked local officials in Brazil pressured ports not to take the ship, and it was repeatedly refused.
But the environmental campaign had apparently worked too well. At that point, after two trans-Atlantic crossings, the ship needed to dock for maintenance.
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