{"id":32884,"date":"2023-03-02T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/concern-grows-about-size-of-spill-from-sunken-product-carrier-off-philippine-island\/32884\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:25:10","slug":"concern-grows-about-size-of-spill-from-sunken-product-carrier-off-philippine-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/concern-grows-about-size-of-spill-from-sunken-product-carrier-off-philippine-island\/32884\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern grows about size of spill from sunken product carrier off Philippine island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Manila has warned that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/product-tanker-sinks-off-popular-filipino-tropical-holiday-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tuesday\u2019s product tanker sinking<\/a><\/span> off the coast of Mindoro island could lead to an oil spill with a radius of 40 km, harming up to 21 protected marine areas.<\/p>\n<p>The laden ship\u2019s engine overheated early on Tuesday morning, having encountered rough weather on a domestic trip. The ship then drifted and sank off the northeast coast of Mindoro with the 20 crew safely picked up by a nearby general cargo ship. The submerged ship is operated by local firm RDC Reield Marine Services.<\/p>\n<p>Tugboats and booms have been deployed to the scene.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The spill thus far has been just diesel, but concern is growing about the cargo, 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the DENR Task Force Group, Philippine Coast Guard , Philippine Air Force and several local government units are working together to prevent the spread of the oil spill in the area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/philippines\/\" rel=\"tag\">Philippines<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Manila has warned that Tuesday\u2019s product tanker sinking off the coast of Mindoro island could lead to an oil spill with a radius of 40 km, harming up to 21 protected marine areas. The laden ship\u2019s engine overheated early on Tuesday morning, having encountered rough weather &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884","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=32884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/32885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}