Stricken tanker could generate ‘one of the more significant’ oil spills in history
- Salvage teams are battling monsoon rains and four-metre swells to limit the damage
- Island that the tanker is grounded off could see some ‘catastrophic’ effects as a result of the event
- Marine environment around the tanker is ‘very rich’, with spill threatening critically endangered sea turtles and humpback whales
Stateless Caroline Bezengi ran aground off Oman’s Hallaniyat Islands at the end of June and has the potential to become a big ecological disaster
