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January 15, 2007 · about 19 years ago

Clean-up effort after ship accident may take months

A severe storm that battered southern Scandinavia yesterday may have helped disperse some of the thick fuel oil that leaked from a Cyprus-registered freighter that ran aground off western Norway and broke up late on Friday, officials said. Captain Erik Blom said a survey of the area indicated that o

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A severe storm that battered southern Scandinavia yesterday may have helped disperse some of the thick fuel oil that leaked from a Cyprus-registered freighter that ran aground off western Norway and broke up late on Friday, officials said.

Captain Erik Blom said a survey of the area indicated that oil that leaked from the vessel was less visible near the wreck, Norwegian news agency NTB said.

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