East China Sea supertanker disaster shows dangers of carrying toxic substances in open water
January 23, 2018 | 1 min. read
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It could have been a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie: billowing black smoke, a growing oil slick 16 kilometres long and the remnants of a half-sunken super oil tanker in the middle of one of the world’s busiest waterways. But this was real life.