ABT Summer
MV ABT Summer was an
slick 32 kilometres (20 mi) long and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) wide began to form.[1] The ship continued to burn for three days before sinking on June 1. The vessel's 260,000 tonne cargo of oil was lost, leaving a visible slick on the ocean surface of approximately eighty square miles. Attempts to locate the wreck following the incident proved unsuccessful.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ a b "ABT Summer". Cedre. 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
- ^ "Worst Oil Spills: The ABT Summer Oil Spill Incident". Marine Insight. 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
- ^ "ABT SUMMER, off Angola, 1991". ITOPF. Archived from the original on 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
- ^ "ABT Summer". OilPollutionLiability.com. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-12-06.