When the flow of oil escaping from a sinking ship has stopped the problem may still be only partly solved. The huge costs to the environment and to the polluter and its insurers do not necessarily end just because the containment booms and the clean-up teams have gone. A wreck on the seabed may
The most common reason for marine oil pollution is invariably due to a ship being damaged by grounding or collision. The sight of oil pouring from the torn hull of a ship is something the world has witnessed too often and provokes a sense of helplessness among witnesses unable to stem the flow. Yet once […]