Japanese oil tanker called for help after hitting the rocks and leaking oil. Why was the cruise ship leaked?

Japanese cruise ship? If the tide? On the 20th, it ran aground on a coral reef in southeast Mauritius, about 3.2 kilometers away from the coastline, and all 20 crew members were evacuated safely. When stranded, the hull was intact and there was no sign of water leakage. However, due to the bad weather in the Indian Ocean in the past two weeks, the hull was damaged by strong winds and waves and eventually broke. A large number of fuel leaks, Mauritius authorities immediately organized a large-scale clean-up work, but the speed of clean-up was far behind the speed of fuel infiltration into the sea. Local residents accused the government of inaction and failed to stop the disaster in time.

Satellite images show that a dark oil stain is ecological? Very sensitive? The sea near the marine reserve. It is estimated that about 1000 tons of fuel leaked into the nearby sea area. Of which 460 tons have been cleared manually.

There are 3800 tons of ultra-low sulfur fuel oil and 200 tons of diesel oil on board. Some experts pointed out that once the ship breaks in two, it only takes a few hours, and the fuel will flood the lagoon by the sea. The statement issued by the ship operator Mitsui Co., Ltd. of Japan on the same day also confirmed that the cracks inside the ship are expanding. Because the ship can't sail by itself, it can only be transferred to a tugboat to prevent the debris from drifting away after rupture.

At present, about 530 tons of fuel has been extracted from the broken oil depot of the cargo ship, and the fuel leakage has stopped, but there are still about 2,500 tons of fuel on the cargo ship, and the hull is in danger of further rupture.

However, due to the shortage of personnel and equipment during the epidemic, the cleaning speed could not keep up with the speed of fuel leakage and diffusion.

Last week, Prime Minister Jaggernath declared that Mauritius was in an environmental emergency and asked French President Macron for help. The latter said on the 8th that it was dispatching personnel and equipment from nearby French reunion island to provide assistance.

Tourism is an important income industry in Mauritius. Affected by the epidemic, the loss of tourism in the past two months has reached 654.38+02 billion rupees (about 2 billion yuan). Local residents and oceanographers worry that the oil spill will further damage their tourism. Driven by strong winds and ocean currents, at present, the oil slick has begun to drift away from the coast, and the oil traces are scattered to the inaccessible waters. Marine experts have assessed that corals that have lived on the coast of Mauritius for hundreds of years are facing a crisis of survival, and the restoration work may take decades, and some losses will be permanent.