Environmental impact assessment of leakage of contaminants from the ship wreck MS “Raana” in Bremsnesfjorden, Kristiansund N

Summary

Optiship AS and Codan Forsikring - gjensidig have requested the Norwegian Institute for Water Research NIVA to perform an environmental impact assessment of leakage of contaminants from the wreck of MV Raana which sank in Bremsnesfjorden outside Kristiansund, Møre and Romsdal County, on April 17 2014. The ship was built in 1957 as a car and passenger ferry and was later rebuilt to function as work vessel. The wreck lies on soft bottom at 103-104 m depth, apparently in reasonably good condition. The NIVA task has been to assess if the extent of potential leakage of contaminants from Raana is likely to cause an unacceptable impact to the local marine ecosystem at the bottom, in the water column and on the shoreline of Bremsnesfjorden and the marine areas around. This impact assessment constitutes one aspect of the information basis to assess whether or not the wreck should be removed.