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3 unusual facts about MV Treasure oil spill


MV Treasure oil spill

The company used a Canadian product, also called Bio-Matrix, made of Sphagnum moss properties notable for its natural ability to soak up oil.

The 12-week rehabilitation process, which cared for over 20,000 birds, required over 130 international team members supervising over 45,000 volunteers, 400 tons of fish to feed the penguins, 7,000 tons of beach sand used in bird pens, and 302 25-liter containers of Detergent used to wash the oil off the penguins' feathers.

The ship wreck is located 50 meters below the water surface in the Bloubergstrand area on the Atlantic coast near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa however, the top of the ship's deck is as close as 30 meters below the surface of the water.



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