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Oil Slick Reaches BonaireContents of this Issue: Bonaire, Belize, Rangiroa, Fiji, Indonesia Independent Reader's Reports Are Invaluable The 2024 Travelin' Diver's Chapbook is in Print! An Unpleasant Experience for a Novice Diver In California, Bring Hammers on Your Dive Should I Insure Old Scuba Gear? Editorial Office: Ben Davison Publisher and Editor Undercurrent 3020 Bridgeway, Suite 102 Sausalito, CA 94965 from the March, 2024 issue of Undercurrent
A barge apparently being towed from Panama to Guyana via Venezuela capsized and sank off the coast of Tobago in early February and went unreported by its owners. It has been leaking oil, and the slick has turned up on the shores of Bonaire, 50 miles from the Venezuelan coast. Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard first spotted the slick on February 7, but it took time to trace its source to the sunken barge, with the name Gulfstream painted on its side, 500 feet offshore. The Coast Guard attempted to stem the spillage, but now Bonaire's mangrove, fish, and coral ecosystems are at risk. So far, it has not affected any popular Bonaire dive sites. (BBC) |
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