TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Saint-Tropez cleans up after Mediterranean oil spill
Change Size
Workers clean hydrocarbon slabs from oil spill from two ships that collided off the waters of Corsica, on Pampelone beach in Ramatuelle, in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, southeastern France, on 18 October, 2018. (AFP/Christophe Simon)
F
rench workers on Thursday scooped balls of tar off the beach in Saint-Tropez after oil that leaked from two ships which collided washed ashore in the Riviera resort.
Authorities in Saint-Tropez said this week that 16 kilometers of coastline had been affected by the spill.
One of them is the Pampelonne beach where screen siren Brigitte Bardot posed in the 1956 classic And God Created Woman.
The oil is believed to have leaked from one of the ships involved in an accident off the French island of Corsica on October 7.
Read also: Nikki Beach wants to remake itself as a chill resort brand
Some 600 tons of bunker fuel leaked from the Cyprus-registered "Virginia" after it was rammed by a Tunisian freighter.
Officials said most of the spill had been cleaned up, but that some of the residues had become trapped in seagrass that washed up ashore in Saint-Tropez.
The beaches have been closed until the clean-up is complete.
