Tourists view polluted water in Coolum, Queensland Email to a friend Share on Facebook Tweet this Tourists view polluted water in Coolum, Queensland after tonnes of fuel were leaked from a vessel off the popular tourist coastline in March 2009. Several beaches in the state were smeared with black sludge after containers pierced the hull of the Hong Kong-flagged Pacific Adventurer in cyclonic weather. Source: AFP - Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium