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.
Go pump it out? Seems like that would be worth the effort.
ReplyDeletethe 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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