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Floating Tar, Dead Fish: Oil Spill Threatens Greek Beaches
The Greek authorities scrambled on Thursday to clean up fuel leaked by an oil tanker that sank near Athens, putting popular beaches off limits to swimmers and raising fears of environmental damage…
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It’s unclear why the ship sank. The vessel’s owner, Theodoros Kountouris, said on Epsilon TV that the ship, built in 1972, had been overhauled in 2014 to make it double-hulled, which would make it safer for leaks, Deputy Environment Minister Socrates Famellos, Glyfada Mayor Girogos Papanikolaou, Tar, Dead Fish, Oil Spill, Greek Beaches, The Agia Zoni II, Salamis, 2,500 metric tons, fuel oil and marine gas oil, Athens Riviera, Salamina, Panagiotis Kouroumplis, The Hellenic Register of Shipping