While the rescue may have been a success, the consequences for the Antarctic’s fragile environment of having a submerged ship that is estimated to be holding 48,000 gallons of marine diesel fuel sitting off its coast are unclear.
- NY Times (read full story here)
Unclear does not even begin to describe the situation.
Monday, November 26, 2007
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Go pump it out? Seems like that would be worth the effort.
the best part of this story is that this ship was full of insane eco-warriors paying big money to go see the impact of global warming on the melting ice -- which iceberg sunk their ship creating an environmental mess. But, all for the cause...
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