Leaking wrecks threaten Micronesia
Australian scientists are warning of an environmental disaster in Micronesia as World War 2 wrecks leak fuel into the region’s seas, the BBC has reported. The wrecks – tourist attractions in their own right - are now considered to be a serious pollution threat. Scientists have said that an oil slick from a submerged ship is already contaminating the Chuuk lagoon in the Caroline Islands, where dozens of Japanese vessels were sunk by American bombers.
“We saw quite a long slick from one of the oil tankers,” Dr Bill Jeffery, from Australia’s James Cook University, told the BBC. “With the corrosion that’s going on, these things fall apart… quite quickly.”
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