AROUND 300,000 liters of oily waste have been collected in the waters where MT Terranova sank with 1.4 million liters of cargo.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Sunday that according to Harbor Star Shipping Services Inc., the rate of oily waste flow on August 24 was 13,500 liters per hour.
On August 19, the salvor collected 2,350 liters, 36,100 liters on August 20, 42,026 liters on August 21, and 81,136 liters on August 22.
FAR FROM OVER Recovery operations continue in Bataan where MT Terranova sank on July 25, 2024, with a cargo of 1.4 million liters of industrial oil fuel. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PCG
On August 23, the Harbor Star collected only 17,103 liters, but the next day, 121,724 liters were siphoned from the Terranova.
This brings the total oil-water mixture collected so far to 300,439 liters.
In the case of another tanker, the Jason Bradley, which sank off Cabcaben in Mariveles, Bataan, on July 27, the contracted salvor, FES Challenger, continued resealing and patching manhole and air vents of the sunken vessel in preparation for refloating it.
Coast Guard personnel laid 50 meters of spill boom around a third sunken vessel, the MV Mirola 1, while the joint oil spill response team monitored the operations of the contracted salvor, Morning Star.
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