Oil removal work begins on ‘fragile’ Second World War-era shipwreck in coastal B.C. | Unpublished
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Author: Nono Shen
Publication Date: October 23, 2024 - 08:03

Oil removal work begins on ‘fragile’ Second World War-era shipwreck in coastal B.C.

October 23, 2024
An oil salvage operation is under way on the fragile wreckage of a U.S. Army transport ship that sank almost 80 years ago off coastal British Columbia in a race to head off an eruption of thousands of litres of oil that a coast guard official says is “near imminent.”The Canadian Coast Guard said the 77-metre-long Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski has been burping up “slow but consistent drops of oil” since the fall of 2022 at the shipwreck site in Grenville Channel, part of the Inside Passage off northern B.C.


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