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Irenes Serenade
''Irenes Serenade'' was an oil tanker that caught fire, exploded, and sank in Navarino Bay, Greece, in February, 1980. It was one of the largest oil spills in history. The ship, owned by Tsakos Shipping Company, was traveling from Syria to Trieste, Italy loaded with over of Iraqi crude oil. It approached Navarino Bay to refuel on February 23. While maneuvering into the bay, fire broke out on the ship, followed by an explosion. It burned for 14 hours. The ship was still in flames when it sank off Sfaktiria Island the next day. Two of the 31 person crew were killed in the explosion. A local fisherman saw the explosion and helped to save the other 29 crew members. Local fishermen also attempted to collect the oil in their boats and to transfer it into road tankers. They were not very successful. Six oil recovery vessels arrived to manage the marine pollution. Of the of oil on the ''Irenes Serenade'', spilled into the bay. An estimated were consumed by fire and evaporated. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk cargo, bulk transport of petroleum, oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined petroleum, crude oil from its point of extraction to oil refinery, refineries. Product tankers, generally much smaller, are designed to move refined products from refineries to points near consuming markets. Oil tankers are often classified by their size as well as their occupation. The size classes range from inland or coastal tankers of a few thousand metric tons of deadweight tonnage, deadweight (DWT) to ultra-large crude carriers (ULCCs) of . Tankers move approximately of oil every year.UNCTAD 2006, p. 4. Second only to pipeline transport, pipelines in terms of efficiency,Huber, 2001: 211. the average cost of transport of crude oil by tanker amounts to only US. Some specialized types of oil tankers have evolved. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarino Bay
Pylos (, ; ), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It was the capital of the former Pylia Province. It is the main harbour on the Bay of Navarino. Nearby villages include Gialova, Pyla, Elaiofyto, Schinolakka, and Palaionero. The town of Pylos has 2,568 inhabitants, the municipal unit of Pylos 4,559 (2021). The municipal unit has an area of 143.911 km2. Pylos has been inhabited since Neolithic times. It was a significant kingdom in Mycenaean Greece, with the remains of the so-called "Palace of Nestor" excavated nearby, named after Nestor, the king of Pylos in Homer's ''Iliad''. In Classical times, the site was uninhabited, but became the site of the Battle of Pylos in 425 BC, during the Peloponnesian War. After that, Pylos is scarcely mentioned until the 13th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
