At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands Oleg Najdienowa wreck found. Russian trawler sank nine days ago. With its leaking fuel tanks. Rescue teams do not exclude that later this week will begin to pump fuel oil.
The place where the ship sank, is a biosphere reserve. In his tanks behind 1400 tons of fuel. Ever since I went to the bottom, the emergency services bring out of the water every day caked birds and turtles mazout. Because of the bad weather, only on Wednesday managed to locate the wreck of the trawler. Lies at a depth of 2700 meters. Robot with camera now looking for a place where fuel oil leaking. – We need to drill the hull and pump out fuel. At the depth at which the vessel is not going to be easy – warns Julio Louro, an expert. Maritime safety.
The rescuers located the two oily spots. One, smaller floats above the sunken ship, the other is away nearly 200 miles from the coast of the Canary Islands. This means that not proved their fears of environmental organizations, which warned that the oily liquid from the hold contaminate beaches of the archipelago.
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