A leak of fuel oil from a sunken ship was detected in the area of the Taman port

On December 19, Sergey Stanichnyy, head of the department of remote sensing methods of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Izvestia about the ongoing leakage of fuel oil from the sunken ship near the port of Taman.

It is specified that the relevant data follow from the analysis of the satellite image received by the MGI RAS and Morspassluzhba.

"Today the image came, on which it is clearly visible that at the bottom is a piece of ship or ship. Fuel oil continues to leak from it," Stanichnyy said.

According to him, the area of the port "Taman" is affected by the spill of oil products in the Black Sea. Thus, the viscous substance as a result of the change of wind direction on Thursday spread up to the structures in the port terminal.

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On December 15, tankers Volgoneft-212 andVolgoneft-239suffered a disaster in the Kerch Strait due to bad weather. As a result, there was a spill of oil products.

The first vessel evacuated 13 people: one of them died, 11 were injured. All 14 crew members were evacuated from the tanker Volgoneft-239 on Monday. Two criminal cases were opened over the incident, one of which was reclassified as more serious because of the death of a sailor.

Governor of the Krasnodar region Veniamin Kondratiev said that after the oil spill in four settlements of the Kuban introduced a state of high alert. Later, on December 17, he specified that after the accident with two tankers fuel oil was carried ashore for dozens of kilometers, two municipalities of the region introduced a state of emergency. Specialists have determined the algorithm of cleaning works.

December 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the pollution of the Black Sea and its shores with fuel oil an environmental disaster and said that he was reported on the development of the situation. The President noted that about 40% of the fuel they were carrying had leaked out of two tankers. The head of state pointed out that now it is necessary to fence off the polluted area so that the stain does not spread, to remove the fuel oil washed ashore and to prepare for the warming of the water in May, when the fuel starts to rise from the surface.