Norway sees minor risk of oil spill from trawler
Date: 21-Jun-02
Country: NORWAY
An oil recovery vessel was in the Lofoten island chain - popular with tourists for its jagged mountains rising from the sea - after the Icelandic-owned vessel Gudrun Gisladottir sank this week carrying 300 tonnes of diesel oil and 870 tonnes of frozen herring.
"We can observe a very limited oil film around the ship, but it drifts with the stream and dissolves about 100-150 metres from the ship," Bjorn Bratfoss, duty officer at the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority, told Reuters.
"We see very a small chance of any serious oil spills."