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26/06/2025Burned-out Zodiac-managed vehicle carrier sinks off Alaska
24/6/2025 – Fire-fighting vessels and salvage teams mobilised to an abandoned, fire-damaged vehicle carrier drifting off the US coast of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean have confirmed the vessel has sunk. A 2006-built vehicle carrier transporting hundreds of electric and hybrid-powered cars has sunk in deep waters hundreds of nautical miles off the US coast […]
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26/06/2025Moment of impact as container ship Solong hits Stena tanker
13/3/2025 – Video footage provided by an Israeli maritime technology company has captured the moment that Stena Bulk’s MR tanker Stena Immaculate, loaded with 220,000 barrels of jet A1 fuel, was hit by the Portugal-flagged container feeder vessel Solong. Orca AI chief executive and co-founder Yarden Gross said the company has provided the footage to […]
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26/06/2025Oil spill leaves 10-km trails on central Vietnam beach
Trails of oil spills have stretched around 10 km of a beach in Phu Yen’s Tuy Hoa Town, suspected to have originated from a vessel offshore. Border guards of Tuy Hoa on Friday, along with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and local authorities, acknowledged the oil spills appearing along the beach. After […]
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26/06/2025Oil spill contaminates over 17ha of Ho Chi Minh City forest following collision of 2 foreign vessels
More than 17 hectares of forest in Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City, have been contaminated with oil following a collision between two foreign vessels, according to a report from local authorities. The incident involved the Panama-flagged container ship KMTC SURABAYA and the Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier GENGLYLE, which collided on April 25 on […]
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26/06/2025Massive oil spill prevention effort launched after shipwreck
Seven thousand liters of oil will be removed from a shipwrecked vessel in central Vietnam after a cargo ship crashed into a reef, endangering the ocean with a possible spill. The prevention effort began Wednesday after the accident in the Cu Lao Cham Marine Conservation area off the coast of Quang Nam Province on March […]
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23/06/2025Why Did ‘Shocking’ Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor?
A newly discovered process that makes oil drop like stones may inspire better cleanup strategies, experts say. In April 2010, as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history stained beaches and plastered birds with thick goo, something totally unexpected was happening under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (map). Out of the public eye, a mass of […]
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12/04/2018Oil Spill Kills More Than 2,400 Animals
An unclear amount of oil has leaked into Colombia’s waterways, and environmental activists are saying an oil company is to blame. At the beginning of March, an oil well in northern Colombia burst, spewing an unclear amount of oil into the Magdalena River, a principal waterway that flows about 950 miles northward through the western half of the […]
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09/04/2018Operational discharge of oil
Ships | Offshore drilling | Pipelines Discharges of oil from shipping, offshore extraction of oil, and transport of oil in pipelines is the result of either accidents or “normal”, deliberate operational discharges. Accidental discharges (oil spills)occur when vessels collide or come in distress at sea (engine breakdown, fire, explosion) and break open, or run aground close to the shore, or when […]
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05/04/2018Oil spills
Oil spills can come from a number of sources, including tankers and oil extraction and storage facilities. Spills from tankers are usually the result of a breach in the hull, either from running aground or hitting an object in the water. Major oil spills, such as the 2006 spill off the coast of Lebanon or […]
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02/04/2018What are oil slicks?
Oil slicks float on oceans and seas, covering them in a thick film of crude or refined petroleum oil. When freight ships carrying tens of thousands of tons of fuel crash, malfunction, or encounter harsh weather, they spill enormous amounts of oil into the water. Since oil and water don’t mix, the oil spreads out […]
