Indian Ocean faces growing threat of fuel spill

The MV Wakashio ship still has more than half of its 4,000 tonnes of fuel on board after running aground off Mauritius last month.
A state of emergency has been declared because of the threat of catastrophic damage to coral reefs in the Indian Ocean.
According to the country's prime minister, the ship is breaking apart.
It is feared the vessel could break up as cracks in the hull widen.
Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi reports.

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[abhishekunni]

'Cheap' maintenance, prehistoric vessels and blind eyes. Every nation face this.

[CanoeToNewOrleans]

Nice to see the citizens working together.

[sip.z]

This sort of things can take up to a decade for full clean up and recovery 😔

[wym]

imagine if that is a chinese conments and hate yep

[vintageb]

at this rate, earth is going to extinction

[gedionatphysicsmathelectro]

Japan should clean up the oil and compensate lost tourism revenue to the area residents affects plus lost tax revenue both to local and national government. Simple. $4bil. minimum. That will teach ship operators to be careful and those country that register them to be equally accountable.

[theresearcher]

Indians won't correct their mistakes but will point fingers at others

[ffejkk]

I'm overwhelmed with news of destruction and death. The good news I hear has lost value due to so much negative and unfortunate stories around the world.

[bittergourd]

Why cant ship company built small chambers to store oil if there is leakage on one tank few thousand oil will spill then intire ship oil

[levismith]

There goes some of the best reefs in the Indian Ocean..this could have long term negative effects on its tourism.

[Ikonik-beon]

Yes boat owner should take their broken ship to home port

[Rose-inspirations]

2020 just has been an absolute nightmare from the day it came. I am not sure to thank God it's almost over or is this just the beginning...

[江城银]

It’s depressing to see that the smaller and relatively poorer countries are paying the costs of transporting fuel for the fuel hungry western nations. We as consumerist nations could wean ourselves off of oil but we simply choose not to out of convenience(it’s also worth mentioning it’s also partly due to the permeation of fossil fuel giants in government like the Koch brothers who block climate change reforms that lessen oil demand).

[joeblack]

Paradise. And they have to deal with this filth. Very sad. Oil is only so useful. We have to get rid of it.

[eddiedeleon]

remembering EXXON VALDEZ in Alaskan shores ... MOTHER EARTH absorbs it again and again ...

[binhduchoang]

Hi i feel bad for country people 's so care about let they pay for cleaning (oil carrier company) they have responsability to pay for this.

[wallaceahtone]

Just another contribution made by the greedy rich to improve our lives. 😠

[earthgl]

Pooer nation
Milllion of people
Hungry

[waxogen]

VIEW WAX TO REMOVE OIL SPILLS DEMONSTRATION ON YOUTUBE

[debabratasahoo]

Fake news it is not indian Ocean. I think this is one of karachi lake