Most of the oil pollution off Corsica has been recovered but the remainder, very fine and diffuse, continued to threaten the coast on Tuesday, especially the south of the island, leading to beach closures such as in Porto. Vecchio.
"Most of the slick has been recovered but we are unable to say how much is left and what will happen on the coast," said Commander Christine Ribbe, spokesperson for the Mediterranean Maritime Prefecture, based in Toulon, evoking "the presence of increasingly fine particles and less and less detectable by plane".
Two 35 km slicks
Since the spotting on Friday off Corsica of two oil slicks about 35 km long, probably due to the degassing of a ship, significant resources have been deployed in the air, at sea and on land to fight against pollution.
“This (Tuesday) morning, the means have been met in Porto-Vecchio to dispatcher between the north and the south, the fringe of the coast but also the open sea, even if yesterday (Monday), unlike the previous days, no pollution was not detected there.
But as there are heavy elements which sink then rise to the surface, we are obliged to check every day if they reappear, ”said Captain Ribbe.
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