A ferry that had ran aground last month off southeastern Sweden, leaking oil into the Baltic Sea, has been pulled free and anchored nearby. The Swedish Coast Guard said Wednesday that a new oil leak had also been discovered. On Oct. 22, the Marco Polo ferry was running along Sweden's coast when it touched ground and started leaking.
The grounded ferry Marco Polo and the tug Max are seen outside Horvik, southern Sweden on Oct. 26, 2023. The Swedish Coast Guard says a ferry boat that ran aground twice off the southeastern coast of Sweden is leaking oil and has suffered “extensive damage.” The Marco Polo ferry, which was running between two Swedish ports on the Baltic Sea, touched ground on Oct. 22.
The plan was to inspect the ferry’s hull and pump out the remaining oil while anchored at sea. Earlier, Sweden’s coast guard said it had suffered “extensive damage” and would eventually be tugged into the Swedish harbor of Karlshamn. The successive groundings released slicks of fuel that eventually reached the shores of Pukavik Bay near Solvesborg, some 110 kilometers northeast of Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city.
Dozens of cubic meters of oil and oil waste have been removed so far. Swedish news agency TT said that an estimated 50 cubic meters have been picked up.
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