"tanker ""Jessica"" in 2001 and the subsequent oil spill brought this threat to world attention. In 2007, UNESCO put the Galápagos Islands on their List of World Heritage in Danger because of threats posed by invasive species, unbridled tourism and overfishing. On 29 July 2010, the World Heritage Committee decided to remove the Galápagos Islands from the list because the Committee found significant progress had been made by Ecuador in addressing these problems. On 28 January 2008, Galápagos National Park official Victor Carrion announced 53 sea lions (13 pups, 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) were killed at the"
"MV Jessica MV ""Jessica"" was an oil tanker that was involved in an oil spill in the Galápagos Islands, a chain of islands west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. The ship was registered in Ecuador and owned by Acotramar. On the evening of 16 January 2001, ""Jessica"" ran aground at Wreck Bay, at the entrance to the port of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, the capital of the Galápagos Province, located on the southwestern coast of San Cristóbal Island. The ship was carrying 600 tons (160,000 gallons) of diesel oil and 300 tons (80,000 gallons) of intermediate fuel"
"Amorgos oil spill The Amorgos oil spill began on 14 January 2001 near Kenting National Park, off the southern coast of Taiwan. On 14 January 2001, the Greek merchant vessel ""Amorgos,"" lost power while en route from India to North China. The carrier was transporting approximately 60,000 tons of iron ore and an estimated 1,000 to 1,150 tons of fuel oil when the ship suffered engine failure near Kenting National Park, off the southernmost tip of Taiwan. The crew subsequently abandoned the ship, and all 25 crew members were rescued by the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) of Taiwan. Due to"
"MV Prestige MV ""Prestige"" was an oil tanker owned by a Greek company based in Liberia and operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast of Galicia, Spain. The sinking caused a major environmental disaster, polluting thousands of miles of coastline with 50,000 tonnes of oil. ""Prestige"" was a single-hulled oil tanker with a length overall of , a beam of , a hull depth of , and a draft of . It had a and a total cargo capacity of . Vessels of this size are classified as Aframax-class tankers. The ship was"
"built by Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan. MV Prestige MV ""Prestige"" was an oil tanker owned by a Greek company based in Liberia and operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast of Galicia, Spain. The sinking caused a major environmental disaster, polluting thousands of miles of coastline with 50,000 tonnes of oil. ""Prestige"" was a single-hulled oil tanker with a length overall of , a beam of , a hull depth of , and a draft of . It had a and a total cargo capacity of . Vessels"
"Guimaras oil spill The Guimaras oil spill occurred in the Panay Gulf on August 11, 2006 when the oil tanker M/T ""Solar 1"" sank off the coast of Guimaras and Negros islands in the Philippines, causing what is considered as the worst oil spill in the country. The oil tanker M/T ""Solar 1"", carrying more than two million liters of bunker fuel, sank during a violent storm approximately off the southern coast of Guimaras at around midnight on August 11, 2006, causing some of oil to pour into the gulf, that traveled up through the Guimaras Strait and Iloilo Strait."
"Kirki (tanker) The Kirki was a 210 metre long Greek-registered oil tanker which caught fire on 21 July 1991, 30 km west of the fishing town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The fire resulted in the ship's bow tearing off, rupturing the forward storage tanks and causing an oil spill initially estimated at 2.9 million gallons. At the time it was the worst oil spill to have occurred in Australian waters. The vessel remained afloat and traveled north to the waters off Cape Preston where oil remaining in the vessel was to be recovered. The incident was the subject of the"
"people died and 36 were injured. The fire started explosions in the ""Camponavia"", which broke in two and sank in a slick of burning oil. The Japanese ship also snapped in two, leaving only the burning bow and stern visible above the waterline. On January 21, 2003, the barge of CEPSA Spabunker IV, used to supply fuel to ships crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, sank during a storm on the way from the dock to seek refuge in the port of Algeciras, just a few miles away. The captain died. In 2007 a particularly serious sulphur incident happened as well"
"oil. The diesel was destined for the fuel dispatch station on Baltra Island, while the fuel oil was destined for the tourist vessel ""Galapagos Explorer"". On 20 January, the fuel oil began to spill from ""Jessica"". Recovery attempts began immediately, with the Ecuadorian Navy, the GNP, and local fishermen and volunteers containing and recovering the oil from the ocean surface. Oiled animals were attended to. On San Cristóbal, seven Galápagos sea lions and 17 birds (brown pelicans and blue-footed boobies) were affected by the fuel oil spill. On Santa Fe Island, a number of sea lions were affected and the"
"Odyssey (tanker) Odyssey, which previously went by the name ""Oriental Phoenix"", was an oil tanker in operation from 1971 to November 10, 1988, when an explosion caused it to sink in the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada. The resulting spill remains one of the largest oil spills in world history. The tanker was off the coast of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia when it sank and released 132,157 tons (43 million gallons) of oil into the ocean. By way of comparison, 4.3 times as much oil was spilled by the ""Odyssey"" as from the much more famous"
"famous Clarke & Dawe sketch, ""The Front Fell Off"" from ""A Current Affair"". Kirki (tanker) The Kirki was a 210 metre long Greek-registered oil tanker which caught fire on 21 July 1991, 30 km west of the fishing town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The fire resulted in the ship's bow tearing off, rupturing the forward storage tanks and causing an oil spill initially estimated at 2.9 million gallons. At the time it was the worst oil spill to have occurred in Australian waters. The vessel remained afloat and traveled north to the waters off Cape Preston where oil remaining in"
"of this spill is the immediate toxic effect of it on the marine inhabitants, with less concern about deposition of condensate on sediments or polluting beaches. Sanchi oil tanker collision The Sanchi oil tanker collision occurred on 6 January 2018 when the Panamanian-flagged, Iranian-owned tanker , with a full natural-gas condensate cargo of 136,000 tonnes (960,000 barrels), sailing from Iran to South Korea, collided with the Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship off Shanghai, China. ""Sanchi"" caught fire shortly after the collision; after burning and drifting for over a week, it sank on 14 January. None of ""Sanchi""s 32 crew members survived."
"they were never found. While the cargo of oil was lost, it was far enough offshore that it did not threaten land. Irenes Challenger Irenes Challenger was an oil tanker that sank in 1977 in the Pacific Ocean. ""Irenes Challenger"" was registered in Liberia, and was owned by the Greek company Tsakos Shipping and Trading when she was lost. On January 17, 1977, ""Irenes Challenger"" was en route to Japan from Venezuela with of crude oil when she began to break up southeast of Midway Island. 28 of the tanker's 31 crew were rescued by ""Pacific Arrow"", a Japanese container"
"MT Haven MT ""Haven, formerly Amoco Milford Haven"", was a VLCC (very large crude carrier), leased to Troodos Shipping (a company run by Lucas Haji-Ioannou and his son Stelios Haji-Ioannou). In 1991, while loaded with 144,000 tonnes (1 million barrels) of crude oil, the ship exploded, caught fire and sank off the coast of Genoa, Italy, killing six Cypriot crew and flooding the Mediterranean with up to 50,000 tonnes of crude oil. It broke in two and sank after burning for three days, and for the next 12 years the Mediterranean coast of Italy and France was polluted, especially around"
"Prestige oil spill The Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain, caused by the sinking of the 26 year old structurally deficient oil tanker in November 2002, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on November 13, and sank on November 19, 2002, about from the coast of Galicia. It is estimated that it spilled (or a mass of 60,000 metric tonnes) of heavy fuel oil. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as"
"began. Shortly afterwards, ""American Star"" and ""Neftegaz-67"" sailed into a thunderstorm in the Atlantic. The tow-lines broke and six or more crew-members were sent aboard the ""American Star"" to reattach the emergency tow-lines, which proved unsuccessful. Two other towboats were called to assist ""Neftegaz"" 67. On 17 January 1994 the crew aboard ""American Star"" was rescued by helicopter. The ship was left adrift. At 6:15 am on 18 January, the ship ran aground at Playa de Garcey off the west coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. While discussions among the ship's owners, the towing firm, and the companies insuring"
"again. Besides its traditional Baltic and Black Sea export directions, in the 2003 Volgotanker resumed using the White Sea-Baltic Canal. The plan was to transport 800,000 tons of fuel oil this way, for transfer to Latvian seagoing tankers at a floating transfer station near the Osinki Island in the Onega Bay, 36 km north-east of the port of Onega. The next year plans were for 1,500,000 tons. Transfer operations started on June 24, 2003. Unfortunately, already on September 1 a collision between Volgotanker's ""Nefterudovoz-57M"" and Latvian ""Zoja-I"" during such a transfer caused an oil spill. Various estimates of the extent"
"MV Treasure oil spill The MV ""Treasure"" oil spill occurred on 23 June 2000, when the ship sank six miles off the coast of South Africa while transporting iron ore from China to Brazil. The ship was carrying an estimated 1,300 tons of fuel oil, some of which spilled into the ocean, threatening the African penguin populations living on nearby islands. Cleanup efforts began promptly after the incident with particular attention being paid to salvaging the African penguin communities. MV ""Treasure"" was a Panamanian-registered cargo ship. The 17-year-old ship was transporting a load of of iron ore from China to"
"to Puerto Deseado. Another four Sea Skuas were used to destroy the wrecks of the cargo ship ""Río Carcarañá"" (8,500 grt) and the patrol boat ""Río Iguazú"". During the Gulf War, six naval Lynx helicopters were deployed to the Gulf on four frigates and destroyers of the Royal Navy. On 24 January 1991 one Lynx engaged and sank two Iraqi minesweepers near Qurah Island. A third was scuttled. A larger engagement took place on 29 January 1991. A force of seventeen Iraqi landing craft and escorting fast attack craft and minesweepers was detected moving south near Failaka island, as part"
"on platform Abkatun A in southern Gulf of Mexico which killed 4 workers. On April 20, 2016, a large explosion and fire at the company's Chlorinate 3 plant in Coatzacoalcos killed at least 28 people. On September 24, 2016, a fire broke out on the oil tanker ""Burgos"", off the coast of Boca del Río, Veracruz, forcing all the crew (31 members) to be evacuated safely. The tanker was carrying 80,000 barrels of diesel and 70,000 barrels of gasoline. In 2009, the U.S. Justice Department reported that some U.S. refineries had bought millions of dollars' worth of oil stolen from"
"tons) of light crude oil from Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia and Kharg Island, Iran. Severe weather resulted in the complete breakup of the ship before any oil could be pumped out of the wreck, resulting in her entire cargo of crude oil (belonging to Shell) and 4,000 tons of fuel oil being spilled into the sea.The US NOAA estimates that the total oil spill amounted to 220,880 metric tonnes of oil. Amoco Cadiz Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier (VLCC) owned by Amoco Transport Corp and transporting crude oil for Shell Oil. Operating under the Liberian flag of"
"Irenes Challenger Irenes Challenger was an oil tanker that sank in 1977 in the Pacific Ocean. ""Irenes Challenger"" was registered in Liberia, and was owned by the Greek company Tsakos Shipping and Trading when she was lost. On January 17, 1977, ""Irenes Challenger"" was en route to Japan from Venezuela with of crude oil when she began to break up southeast of Midway Island. 28 of the tanker's 31 crew were rescued by ""Pacific Arrow"", a Japanese container ship. The United States Coast Guard deployed a C-130 aircraft and the cutter USCGC ""Mallow"" to search for the missing crew, but"
"containers. The previous largest ship, the supertanker ""Seawise Giant"", was scrapped in 2010. All four oil tankers were constructed for shipping company Hellespont Group by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea in 2002/3. The ships were originally named ""Hellespont Alhambra"", ""Hellespont Fairfax"", ""Hellespont Metropolis"" and ""Hellespont Tara"". In 2004 the class was jointly purchased. In 2004, Euronav NV, a Belgian shipowner, and partners purchased all four ships. ""Hellespont Fairfax"", ""Hellespont Tara"", ""Hellespont Alhambra"" and ""Hellespont Metropolis"" were renamed ""TI Oceania"", ""TI Europe"", ""TI Asia"" and ""TI Africa"" respectively ""Hellespont Fairfax"" was the subject of The Discovery Channel's"
"and with no markings, attacked the Shell oil terminal there. The Invader bombed and sank Eagle Oil and Shipping's and made an unsuccessful attack on Anglo-Saxon Petroleum's . Immediately after the attack ""Daronia"" left Balikpapan for the safety of Singapore, taking with her 26 of ""San Flaviano""s rescued crew. A few days later ""Dromus"" assisted by taking a further 24 of ""San Flaviano""s crew from Balikpapan to Singapore. Shell also evacuated shore-based wives and families to Singapore and suspended its tanker service to Balikpapan. ""Dromus"" remained in Shell service until 1962, when she was scrapped at Yokosuka, Japan. In 2004"
"""Exxon Valdez"". Odyssey, built in 1971, was a 65,000-ton tanker operated by Polembros Shipping Ltd. of London, England, and registered in Liberia. On November 5, 1988, the tanker departed Sullom Voe Terminal in the Shetland Islands off Scotland, fully loaded with North Sea Brent Crude oil which was being transported to the Come By Chance Refinery at Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador. When the ship was about 1000 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, a major North Atlantic storm arose, buffetting the ship with waves and 44-mile-per-hour winds. In response, the ship sent out a distress signal and kept heading"
"oil were recovered with another 5000 completely lost. On November 13, during attempts to control the leaks resulting from the accident, the well Kab 121 ignited and was brought under control the same day. On the 20th of November, Kab 121 ignited again, this time the fire destroyed the remains of the Derrick and was controlled on December 3. On August 4, 2008, another fire was extinguished on the Usumacinta. This fire is suspected to have been caused by scrappers attempting to steal from the abandoned rig. This blaze was extinguished by the ships “Isla Guadalupe”, “Isla Cozumel”, “Pionero”, “Conquistador”,"
"B.S. and pilot of the B-24 that aided in the immediate rescue of the seaman filed the following report: ""On 21 March 1944, a tanker en route to the Galapagos, at a point about sixty miles east of San Cristobal island, radioed this base for aid. An emergency existed because of the sudden illness of one of the tanker's crew. The crash boat was sent out to intercept the tanker and take the sick man aboard and return to this base. At 1700 G.C.T. the boat had reached a point about forty miles from the probable position of the tanker."
"same area in A Coruña in November 2002, in which a tanker, ""Prestige"", carrying 77,000 tons of oil split into two and spilled its cargo. About 10,000 tons of oil was spilled but the sunken hull of ""Prestige"" is still leaking oil from her tanks to this day. Aegean Sea tanker oil spill The ""Aegean Sea"" tanker oil spill was a spill that occurred on 3 December 1992 when the double-bottomed Greek-flagged oil tanker, ""Aegean Sea"", en route to the Repsol refinery in A Coruña, Spain, suffered an accident off the Galician coast. The ship had successfully passed all required"
"taking on the riskiest ventures. It earned the company massive profits; it also earned them the worst safety record in the industry. In 1967, the giant oil tanker ""Torrey Canyon"" foundered off the English coast. Over of crude oil was spilled into the Atlantic and onto the beaches of Cornwall and Brittany, causing Britain's worst-ever oil spill. The ship was owned by the Bahamas-based Barracuda Tanker Corporation and was flying the flag of Liberia, a well-known flag of convenience, but was being chartered by British Petroleum. The ship was bombed by RAF jet bombers in an effort to break up"
"SS Torrey Canyon SS ""Torrey Canyon"" was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 120,000 tons of crude oil. She was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England, on 18 March 1967, causing an environmental disaster. At that time she was the largest vessel ever to be wrecked. When laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in the United States in 1959, she had a capacity of 60,000 tons. However, the ship was later enlarged in Japan to 120,000 tons capacity. At the time of the shipwreck she was owned by Barracuda"
"Torrey Canyon oil spill The ""Torrey Canyon"" oil spill was one of the world's most serious oil spills. The supertanker ran aground on a reef off the south-west coast of the United Kingdom in 1967, spilling an estimated 25–36 million gallons (94–164 million litres) of crude oil. Attempts to mitigate the damage included the bombing of the wreck by aircraft from the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, causing a potential international incident, as the ship was not British, and was in international waters. Hundreds of miles of coastline in Britain, France, Guernsey, and Spain were affected by the oil"
"Amoco Cadiz Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier (VLCC) owned by Amoco Transport Corp and transporting crude oil for Shell Oil. Operating under the Liberian flag of convenience, she ran aground on 16 March 1978 on Portsall Rocks, from the coast of Brittany, France. Ultimately she split in three and sank, resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. On 16 March 1978 in a southwesterly gale, the ""Amoco Cadiz"" passed Ushant at the western tip of Brittany, headed for Lyme Bay in the United Kingdom. At 9:46 am when the supertanker"
"hull. During the following spring, the company ""Fondomar"" was tasked with scrapping the remainder of the stern portion of the hull. Small balls of decomposed oil were found sporadically since until 2001, when a major find of these balls was confirmed to be from fuel remaining in the double bottom fuel tank of the stern section that was not removed in 1986. This led to a second salvage operation to remove the fuel during 2001-2002 and the complete the removal of the remainder of the wreck in 2003 due to public out-cry. On November 15, 2003 Gijón artist Joaquín Rubio"