The organization Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción asked the Maritime Authority this Friday to “identify the effects on the sea” of a “spill of 600 tonnes of paraffin” recorded in the Strait of Gibraltar.
This is what the environmental organization states in a note in which it explains that “apparently, the tanker ‘Southern Puma’ and the bulk carrier ‘Louisa Bolten’ collided approximately 20 miles from Punta Europa and 15 miles of Ceuta, dumping 600 tonnes of paraffin into the Strait of Gibraltar.
The tanker “Southern Puma” was “loaded with paraffin” to be unloaded in San Roque (Cádiz), but “now part of it is in the Strait of Gibraltar”, according to the environmental organization, which explained that “it “They find the maritime rescue ships “Salvamar Atria”, “Luz de Mar” and “Salvamar Denebola” which are guarding the bulk carrier “Louisa Bolten” 20 miles from Ceuta, without knowing what happened.”
For Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción, “the interpretation of the sea captain, who claims that the 600 tonnes will evaporate in the Strait of Gibraltar without any impact on the environment, is not valid”.
Faced with this, the environmental organization requests “that the environmental impact occurring in the Strait of Gibraltar be assessed since 4:30 a.m., the date on which, as it clarified, the collision of these ships and the aforementioned oil spill.
According to Verdemar, “paraffins are extracted from distilled crude oil” and “harm the environment”, so “this spill could harm hundreds of marine species that frequent this area of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Sea of ‘Alboran,’ warns the environmental organization.
