The organization Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción has asked this Friday the Maritime Captaincy to “identify the effects on the sea” of a “dump of 600 tons of paraffin” recorded in the Strait of Gibraltar.
This has been claimed by the environmental organization in a note in which it has explained that, “apparently, the tanker ‘Southern Puma’ and the bulk carrier ‘Louisa Bolten’ have collided about 20 miles from Punta Europa and 15 miles from Ceuta, spilling 600 tons of paraffin into the Strait of Gibraltar.”
The ‘Southern Puma’ tanker was “loaded with paraffin” for unloading in San Roque (Cádiz), but “now part of it is in the Strait of Gibraltar,” according to the environmental organization, which explained that “it is now “They find the Maritime Rescue vessels ‘Salvamar Atria’, ‘Luz de Mar’ and ‘Salvamar Denébola’ guarding the bulk carrier ‘Louisa Bolten’ 20 miles from Ceuta, without knowing what has happened.”
For Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción, “the interpretation of the Maritime Captain, who states that the 600 tons are going to evaporate in the Strait of Gibraltar without any impact on the environment, is not valid.”
Faced with this, the environmental organization asks “that the environmental impact that has occurred in the Strait of Gibraltar be assessed since 4:30 a.m.” in the morning, when, as they have specified, the collision of these ships and the aforementioned spill.
According to Verdemar, “paraffins are extracted from distilled crude oil” and “damage the environment”, so “this spill may be harming hundreds of marine species that frequent this area of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea”, warns the environmental organization.
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