The United Nations’ marine agency said on Wednesday that containment attempts were being hampered by monsoon winds, while state media claimed that an oil spill from a tanker that ran aground near Oman had reached the coastline. According to an earlier AFP investigation, the ship was damaged by explosives and became stuck for weeks close to the island of Al-Qibliyyah in Oman. According to the country’s environmental authority, “today’s monitoring results showed that some beaches in the Ras Madrakah area were affected by oil pollution,” according to the Oman News Agency (ONA). The town on the Indian Ocean is located almost 200 kilometres (125 miles) away from Al-Qibliyya.
The ship is leaking close to an island in an Omani maritime nature reserve that is home to a variety of animals, such as Socotra cormorants and Arabian Sea humpback whales. On June 8, the tanker first reported problems off Yemen. The International Maritime Organization of the United Nations stated that it was “closely monitoring” leaks from the crude oil tanker Caroline Bezengi. According to the spokeswoman, the ship sank near Oman on June 30 and is now around 22 nautical miles off the coastal hamlet of Sharbithat.
Even tho “the seasonal monsoon has limited access to the vessel and delayed salvage operations,” they continued, oil was reportedly drifting offshore to the northeast of Al-Qibliyyah, with some even reaching the mainland. According to the most current estimate from the nation’s environmental office, the spill had affected some 390 square kilometres (150 square miles), and Oman claimed on Monday that it was attempting to contain it.
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