Oil slicks came from the „Baltic Carrier“

Ostseezeitung Rostock - 26.04.2001

Bad Doberan. The slicks of oil that could be found on the beach of the Baltic Sea between Kühlungsborn and Warnemünde before Eastern came from the Baltic Barrier”, so the published results of a laboratory test of the Schweriner Department of the Environment.

The oil tanker was colliding with a bulk sugar carrier in the Kadetrinne between the Danish and German Baltic Coast 4 weeks ago. Approximately 2,700 tons of oil leaked out to open sea and caused tremendous damages of the environment especially at the Danish coast.

However, the oil discoveries at the coast of Mecklenburg were very low. The municipal authorities ordered right away the clearance of the unpleasant flotsam (OZ reported several times).

The national bureau for environment and nature in Rostock (StAUN) arranged, in the NORDUM Institut für Umwelt und Analytik GmbH in Kessin, a comparison of the samples of the washed ashore oil slick with the oil samples of the tanker that met with the accident, stated the boss of the StAUN Hans-Joachim Meier, yesterday.

In the lab report is written: “In summary it could be determined that the analyzed oils are, in all probability, from the same source (like the leaked out oil from the tanker “Baltic Carrier”).” The same results reached, by the way, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency  (BSH).

R.B.

Original text by author in German translated by the Nordum Akademie GmbH & Co. KG