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Background
From the 1960's ship to ship transfer took Coastguard Agency published draft
place on an ad hoc basis in suitable locations Regulations to control activity in the area. To
all around the coast of Britain. Lyme Bay was date these draft regulations have yet to be
one such location due to its proximity to the implemented, as the government are waiting
main shipping lanes, and the availability of for the publication of the final report identifying
shelter in the western half of the bay. These Marine Environmental High Risk Areas
transfers were for imports/ exports to and from (MEHRAs) before proceeding. (There was an
the UK initial report in 1999 identifying MEHRA’s , but
the methodology behind the report was
Following the 1993 Braer disaster off questioned and resulted in the reports
Shetland, the Lord Donaldson's inquiry made withdrawal.)
a series of recommendations concerning the
safe transport of oil around the UK. Amongst Between 1999 and 2003 operations in this
these recommendations, it was proposed that area have involved either the emergency
ship to ship transfer of oil be restricted to two transfers of cargo (such as that salvaged from
areas off the English coast, Lyme Bay and the Iveoli Sun) or one to two commercial
Southwold, off East Anglia. transfers per year between a small numbers
of vessels. In the latter cases it was the
However, the ship to ship transfer operations transfer of mainly non-persistent cargoes such
in Lyme Bay, were only given a semi-formal as jet-fuel and kerosene from large ocean
status in 1998, when the UK Maritime and