UPDATE - Coastguards scoop up half Baltic oil slick
Date: 24-Aug-01
Country: SWEDEN
The slick, most likely a spill from an unidentified passing ship, was 27 km (17 miles) long and 250 metres (yards) wide when discovered about 45 km (28 miles) south of the port city of Ystad on Sweden's southeast coast around noon this week.
The Swedish Coast Guard said in a statement that five Swedish and one German ship had been joined by a Danish vessel, which together had taken on board 30 cubic metres of an estimated total 70 cubic metres of thick oil.
Aircraft from six concerned nations with Baltic coastlines were monitoring the movements of the slick, which was last reported to be drifting south into Danish and German territorial waters.
