Russian oil tanker breaks apart in the Kerch Strait

[Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj]

The Volganeft-139 oil tanker has broken apart in the Kerch Strait
entrance to the sea of Azov during a storm this past sunday.
The tanker was carrying about 1.3 million gallons of fuel oil and
so far about one-half of it has spilled out fouling the beaches
and killing about 30.000 birds and countless fish.
Two other Russian freighters were sunk there during this same
storm also with a loss of several sailors from one of the sinking
freighters.
http://www.daylife.com/topic/Strait_of_Kerch/photos/all/1
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/11/1088807-tanker-spills-oil-in-black-sea-strait
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/world/20071112_ap_tankerspillsoilinblackseastrait.html
"As many as 10 ships sank or ran aground in the strait and the northern Black
Sea region during the fierce storm,"
"Vesti 24 on Sunday reported the sinking of a Russian freighter carrying metal
near the port of Sevastopol on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. Two members of its
16-man crew drowned and one was missing, it said."
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