Yellow Sea Black Oiled
10.12.2007 Radikal
AFP - TAEAN - The oil tanker crashed in South Korea, said that the oil emitted in the sea will stay for months. The accident occurred with a giant tanker with the Hong Kong band from the Mallipo beach to the South Korean bark. 147 thousand tons of Hebei Spirit named the tanker ran to the region for thousands of soldiers, police, beach security officers and volunteer cleaning work after collision on the Mallipo open on the southwest coast of the country. The team managed to stop leakage at the end of the tanker.
[[T]]The oil that was left in the lastth of the three containers of the sea, after the cooling, moved with a barley, but from now to 10 thousand tons of oil spread to the Yellow Sea, will continue to pollute a large portion of the coast. [ [[T][6]]Cleaning takes at least two monthsFelaket, the capital is 120 km from Seoul. Located in the southwest, the largest income is located in Taean, where the beaches and farms are obtained. The Minister of Shipping Kang Moo-Hyun said that the cleaning work on the sea estimates for at least two months, hit the beaches and collapsed into the sea bed, the oil deposits seriously polluted 17-20 kilometers of the coastline.
[Kang will not be able to be marketed for a while if a part of the "Fish and sea life is saved. We’ll take all measures to prevent our oil from hitting our coast. [
Oil extraction and beach cleaning work attended 7 thousand 500 people, 105 ships and six aircraft. Coastal safety said that up to 565 tons of oil is collected but only 5 percent of total leakage. kevgirler used to remove oil from sea and clean spots on the water surface. The full of buckets from black sand, which were infected with oil was transferred to plastic pools.
Olan will again be to birds
Lee Bong Gil de from theKorea Coast Guard "we make it difficult to spread, control, but when we look at the speed of the tide and wind, we would not be serious spread after that." The contaminated coastline is known as one of the important habitats for many types of immigrant birds, such as the largest wetlands of Asia and swamps.
In the last month, he painted the oil Black Sea, which was leaked from the tanker, close to the Russian port. It was noted that at least 30 thousand birds can be purified in at least five years.
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