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Oil Slick Spotted Near Fire- stricken Tanker

marinesalvage by marinesalvage
October 9, 2020
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Oil Slick Spotted Near Fire-stricken Tanker

(Credit: Sri Lanka Navy)

(Credit: Sri Lanka Navy)

Sri Lanka’s navy claimed on Tuesday that an oil slick had actually been detected a kilometer from a packed supertanker off the nation’s eastern coastline, as initiatives to snuff out a fire on board proceeded.

Sri Lankan authorities are functioning to examine any kind of damages to the atmosphere and also aquatic life from the occurrence, which started on September 3, when a fire at first burst out in the engine space of the New Diamond supertanker.

The very first fire aboard the ship, which was hired by Indian Oil Corp to import some 2 million barrels of oil from Kuwait, was produced, yet a 2nd one burst out on Monday.

“The ship has tilted slightly towards where the fire broke out due to the large amount of water sprayed to douse the fire,” Sri Lanka Navy’s spokesperson Indika de Silva informed Reuters, including: “Oil in the engine room appears to have leaked out to the sea”.

The New Diamond was being held some 40 kilometers (25 miles) eastern of Sri Lanka, while firefighting watercrafts splashed it with water, de Silva included.

An Indian Air Force aircraft posted at the worldwide flight terminal in Hambantota had additionally went down a specialized chemical combination on the slick to regulate it, the Sri Lankan navy claimed in a declaration.

The most recent fire got on the appropriate side of the vessel near the channel and also was not near the containers holding the petroleum, Silva claimed previously, including it was still melting.

A salvage group was operating at the website and also “additional assets, salvage personnel and fire fighting equipment” got on the means, he claimed.

Sri Lanka has actually released researchers and also specialists from its Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA), with one group checking out the location around the ship and also one more seaside locations for indications of contamination, Jagath Gunesekara, replacement General Manager of MEPA, claimed.

(Additional coverage by Arjuna Ranawana; Writing by Nidhi Verma and also Zeba Siddiqui; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and also Alexander Smith)

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