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Apollo Sea
The MV ''Apollo Sea'' was a Chinese-owned, Panamanian-registered bulk carrier which sank near Cape Town in June 1994. Leaking oil from the sunken vessel caused a major environmental disaster which resulted in the death of thousands of seabirds, including endangered African penguins. All of the ship's 36 crew members died in the sinking, which apparently occurred so quickly that no general distress signals were given.〔 The first public indication that the ship had sunk was the appearance of penguins covered with oil. The source of the slick was initially believed to be the wreck of the supertanker ''Castillo de Bellver'', but this theory was disproven and the slick was instead traced to the wreck of the ''Apollo Sea''. The vessel had been loaded with of heavy fuel oil when she left port four hours before she sank.〔 Later it was revealed that an automated distress signal had been sent directly to the owners via satellite from the approximate location of the oil spill, and the owners eventually admitted the loss of the vessel and accepted responsibility for the spill.〔〔
== Environmental impact ==
10,000 African Penguins were collected and cleaned. Of those, approximately 5,000 survived. Six years later, the region's seabird rookeries were threatened by a similar incident; the MV ''Treasure'' oil spill.
== See Also ==
*List of oil spills
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