Oil slicks reach Estonian shore, Finns help mop up

Mar 22, 2006
Staff and wire reports

TALLINN - Clean-up ships swarmed the Bay of Tallinn on March 17 after the Estonian Border Guard detected large amounts of shore-bound oil floating in from the Gulf of Finland. Finnish vessels gathered about two tons of spilled oil in an area situated between the Gulf of Finland islands Naissaar and Aegna near Tallinn by the afternoon of March 17.But a pollution reconnaissance flight carried out on March 19 showed that in several places the oil slick from Runner 4, a freight ship sailing under th ...

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