New Diamond Towed Further Out to Sea<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The oil slick has raised concerns about the potential of further leakage from the cargo holds, which if emptied completely into the sea would rank as one of the worst spills on record.<\/p>\n
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Here are some major oil spills involving ships, especially tankers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1978<\/strong> \u2013 The Amoco Cadiz<\/strong> oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Brittany, France, after its steering failed in a severe storm, resulting in the spilling of 1.8 million barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1979<\/strong> \u2013 The Atlantic Empress<\/strong> and the Aegean Captain<\/strong>, two fully loaded oil tankers, collided 10 miles (16.1 kms)off the coast of Tobago in a tropical rainstorm, spilling more than 2.1 million barrels of oil into the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1983<\/strong> \u2013 The Castillo de Bellver<\/strong> exploded and sank off the coast of Cape Town carrying roughly 250,000 tonnes of crude oil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1988<\/strong> \u2013 The fully loaded tanker Odyssey<\/strong> operated by Polembros Shipping exploded and sank in the North Atlantic 700 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, spilling 1 million barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1989<\/strong> \u2013 The Exxon Valdez<\/strong>, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, hit Prince William Sound in Alaska, dumping more than 250,000 barrels of crude oil into the sea killing animals and plants throughout Prince William Sound.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The accident, considered one of the worst human-caused environmental disasters, led to new rules requiring double-hulled ships in the region.<\/p>\n
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1991<\/strong> \u2013 The oil tanker ABT Summer<\/strong> exploded about 900 miles off the coast of Angola, spilling its entire cargo of 1.9 million barrels at sea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1996<\/strong> \u2013 The Sea Empress<\/strong> went down on the rocks off Milford Haven on Britain\u2019s west coast in 1996, in one of the country\u2019s worst environmental disasters that saw over 70,000 tonnes of oil spilled.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1999<\/strong> \u2013 The tanker Erika<\/strong> sank during a storm in December, leaking thousands of tonnes of oil into the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France and causing a major environmental disaster.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
2011\/2012<\/strong> \u2013 In New Zealand\u2019s worst environmental disaster in decades, hundreds of tonnes of oil leaked into the coastal waters and on to beaches off Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island from the stricken 47,230-tonne Liberian-flagged container ship Rena<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
2018<\/strong> \u2013 The suezmax Sanchi<\/strong> tanker carrying 136,000 tonnes of Iranian condensate collided with a cargo ship off Shanghai, caught fire and burned for a week. All 32 crew onboard were killed. Japan\u2019s Coast Guard said at the time that oil which washed up on the shores of its southern islands was highly likely to have come from Sanchi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
2020<\/strong> \u2013 The Wakashio<\/strong>, a Japanese bulk carrier, struck a coral reef off Mauritius\u2019 coast in the Indian Ocean in July, spilling thousands of tonnes of crude oil into the sea and choking marine life in a pristine lagoon.<\/p>\ngCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SINGAPORE, Sept 9 (Reuters) \u2013 The Sri Lankan navy said on Tuesday an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded supertanker carrying roughly 2 million barrels of oil that has been engulfed in intermittent fires since an explosion on Sept. 3. Oil from the engine room of the 20-year old \u2018New Diamond\u2019 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5549,2587,166,1241,3466,7353],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-list","tag-major","tag-oil","tag-ships","tag-short","tag-spills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/17214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}