| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Tanio oil spill ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Tanio oil spill
The ''Tanio'' oil spill occurred March 7, 1980 when the ''Tanio,'' an oil tanker of Madagascan origin traveling from Wilhelmshaven to Civitavecchia split in two 60 km off the coast of Brittany, France in rough weather, spilling about 13,500 tons of cargo oil into the English Channel and killing 8 sailors.〔http://www.cedre.fr/fr/accident/tanio/tanio.php〕
The stern section of the boat was towed to Le Havre by a British cargo ship despite the strong wind. The bow, however, sunk, leaking 5,000 tons of oil. After the spill, strong winds moved the oil toward the Breton coast.〔http://www.itopf.com/information-services/data-and-statistics/case-histories/tlist.html〕
==Cleanup operations==
Oil began to wash a shore on the Breton beaches on March 9 and contaminated about 200 km of the coastline, overlapping 45% of the area that have been contaminated by the ''Amoco Cadiz'' spill in 1978. In contrast to the ''Amoco Cadiz'' spill, in which only one quarter of lost oil washed ashore, most of the spilled oil came onshore due to weather conditions.〔Gundlach, E.R., Berné, S., D'Ozouville, L. and Topinka, AJ. (1981). ''Shoreline OIl Two Years After Amoco Cadiz: New Complications From Tanio.'' International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1981 1981:1, 525-534〕
Because tourism is an important industry in Brittany, measures were quickly taken to clean up the spilled oil. This proved difficult because the contamination was mainly heavy fuel oil (n° 6) and therefore, extremely viscous, especially in cold, cloudy weather, which limited the use of tractor drawn vacuum trucks in cleaning up the beaches. Additionally, the large tidal range (9m), severe weather, and the varied coastline prevented the effective use of booms. Ultimately, bulldozers and other heavy-machinery were used to remove oil from beaches.〔
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Tanio oil spill」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|