Satellite spots huge fuel oil slick in Kerch Strait after tanker accident
Kyiv • UNN
The European satellite Sentinel-1A detected a 2.4 square kilometer slick of fuel oil in the Kerch Strait after the sinking of the Volgoneft-212 tanker. Due to a change in wind direction, the pollution could reach the coastline.
The European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite has detected a fuel oil stain in the Kerch Strait, which is likely caused by an oil spill from the sinking Volgoneft-212 tanker. This was reported by environmentalists, noted by the Crimean Wind Telegram channel, UNN reports.
According to experts, the area of contamination is about 2.4 square kilometers.
Environmentalists predict that by Thursday evening, the wind direction will change from northwest to south, which could bring the fuel oil that has fallen into the sea closer to the coast. This, according to experts from the Transparent World in the Caspian Sea organization, is fraught with new oil spills on the coastline.
Recall
On December 15 , two tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, were shipwrecked in the Kerch Strait.
According to environmentalists, the consequences for the marine ecosystem could be catastrophic and last for decades.
Yesterday it became knownthat the third tanker of the Volgoneft series, loaded with fuel oil, sent a distress signal near the port of Kavkaz in the Black Sea, and the ship suffered a cargo leak.
