FRANCE: A DUTCH-BELGIAN CONSORTIUM SALVAGING THE WRECK OF A SHIP OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE SAY LEAKAGE OF OIL HAS STOPPED

Record ID: 648715

  • Title: FRANCE: A DUTCH-BELGIAN CONSORTIUM SALVAGING THE WRECK OF A SHIP OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE SAY LEAKAGE OF OIL HAS STOPPED
  • Date: 11th September 2003
  • Summary: (U6) AT SEA, 35 KM OFF COAST DUNKERQUE, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 9, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. AERIAL VIEW OF SHEERLEGS ABOVE SUNKEN TRICOLOR WITH TRAIL OF OIL SPILL; MID SHOT OF OIL STAINS FLOATING ON SEA SURFACE; WIDE SHOT OF TRICOLOR SALVAGE BOATS WITH TRAIL OF OIL SPILL 2. AERIAL VIEW OIL LEAKING FROM SUNKEN TRICOLOR 3. AERIAL VIEW ZOOM IN FROM HUGE SHEERLEG RAMBIZ WITH CUTTING CABLE ON FOREGROUND TO OIL BEHIND DRIFTING ON THE SEA; SLV TRICOLOR SALVAGE BOATS AND OIL TRAIL 2.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: 35 KM OFF COAST DUNKERQUE, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVABHT7T0IAV9V8XNXIG9C2LIT1V
  • Story Text: A Dutch-Belgian consortium salvaging the wreck of a
    ship off the coast of France said the leakage of oil has
    stopped.

    Belgian and Dutch salvage firms have been cutting up
    the car carrier Tricolor on Tuesday (September 9, 2003), which
    sank off the coast of France in December 2002 after it
    collided with another ship at the eastern end of the
    English Channel.

    A Belgian local government official said on Monday
    about 100 tonnes of oil had been leaking from the Tricolor
    during the latest cutting operations.

    He said there was no risk yet of beaches being polluted.

    The consortium said in a statement six vessels have
    been deployed to fight the spill.

    It also said it had completed the fifth cut of the
    Tricolor and that it will lift a third section of the car
    carrier today.

    The salvage team plans to divide the Tricolor into nine
    sections to remove the wreck by October.


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