Philippines Rushes to Include Oil Spill From Sunken Tanker

Philippine authorities are speeding to comprise an oil spill from a tanker that sank early Thursday, killing one crew member, after Storm Gaemi battered the nation.

A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of business gas oil capsized 3.6 nautical miles east off Lamao Level in Bataan province, which faces Manila Bay.

The remainder of the 17 crew members aboard Motor Tanker Terra Nova had been rescued, the Philippine Coast Guard mentioned in a press release.

The coast guard mentioned it might dispatch three vessels to mitigate the influence of the oil spill. The coast guard has set “an operational goal of seven days to complete siphoning the oil from the sunken tanker to cease additional unfold,” commandant Ronnie Gil Gavan mentioned.

PCG responds to a maritime incident involving Philippine-flagged Motor Tanker (MT) Terra Nova that capsized and finally submerged 3.6 nautical miles east off Lamao Level, Limay, Bataan, at round 1:10AM at this time, 25 July 2024.
✍️https://t.co/tN3nSkxRTd#CoastGuardPH pic.twitter.com/qC2VKPdmiq
— Philippine Coast Guard (@coastguardph) July 25, 2024

Authorities have monitored an oil spill 5.6 nautical miles east off Lamao Level, with an estimated protection of two nautical miles carried by sturdy present heading east to northeast, in accordance with the coast guard.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in a televised briefing on the aftermath of Gaemi, instructed businesses to evaluate the oil spill’s influence.

“What we have to assess is the place was the capsized vessel? The gas is being launched, what are the tides? What are the winds? The place is it headed? In order that we will get forward. We want some determinations of that,” Marcos mentioned.

Final 12 months, a Philippine tanker carrying 800,000 liters of business gas sank off Mindoro province south of Manila, inflicting a spill that took months to clean up.

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