Japanese tanker spills tons of crude oil

A Japanese tanker spilled about 1.3 million gallons of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean following a collision with a cargo ship. The spill of about 31,500 barrels may have been the largest ever involving a Japanese tanker. The Bright Artemis tanker spilled the oil following a collision with the Amar, a smaller cargo ship, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said. The tanker was carrying about 74 million gallons, or 1.76 million barrels, of crude. It had left port in Oman bound for Japan.

The largest oil spill involving a U.S. vessel occurred when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker emptied 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska in 1989, killing hundreds of thousands of birds and marine animals and soiling more than 1,200 miles of rocky beach.

- What a waste.

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