- Title: IVORY COAST: GROUNDED SHIP THREATENS POLLUTION OF WEST AFRICA'S BEACHES
- Date: 3rd September 1971
- Summary: 1. GV Beach PAN TO grounded tanker 0.08 2. SV People on beach 0.13 3. SV Stern of tanker & oil on water (2 shots) 0.22 4. SV Deck of tanker 0.27 5. SV Bulldozer onto beach & rope attached to tanker from bulldozer 0.43 6. SV Bulldozer pulls tanker 0.58 7. SV Workmen & bulldozer working on beach 1.07 Initials SGM/2245 SGM/2205 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 18th September 1971 13:00
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- Location: Outside Vridi Canal, entrance to Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- Country: Ivory Coast
- Reuters ID: LVAAM30DFVITX8UVOXBM76RAB5O2
- Story Text: Most of West Africa's beaches from Cameroun to Liberia are threatened with oil pollution if attempts to salvage the Monrovia-registered cargo ship Dora, 13,000 tons, are unsuccessful.
She ran aground on the night of the 22nd of August outside the entrance to Vridi canal, which connects the sea with the inland ports of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's capital.
Tugs failed to refloat her, and on Wednesday after she had been holed by high seas a bulldozer was called in to help pull her beam on to the shore, so that her timber cargo could be off-loaded.
Experts calculated then that the ship must be turned and off-loaded within three days or the action of the surf would break her in two and spill her other cargo, heavy diesel oil, into the sea. If this is done the pollution threat may well be averted.
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