Philippines recovers oil from sunken tanker, avoids disaster
The Peninsula
Manila: The Philippine government said it had completed on Thursday the recovery of fuel cargo from a sunken oil tanker on Manila Bay, avoiding an en...
Manila: The Philippine government said it had completed on Thursday the recovery of fuel cargo from a sunken oil tanker on Manila Bay, avoiding an "environmental catastrophe".
The Philippine-flagged MT Terranova went down with 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil on July 25 in rough seas churned by Typhoon Gaemi, killing one crew member.
The coast guard had warned that if the fuel had leaked it could have caused the country's biggest oil spill and an "environmental catastrophe".
"The salvor informed us that we have recovered 96 percent of the oil waste," Lieutenant Commander John Encina said in video comments shared with the press by the Philippine Coast Guard.
"What we're getting now is mostly water."
