We got a tip early this morning from a friend in France that an oil spill had been reported in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Corsica. Today’s MODIS images showed nothing of interest. But we did find a brand-new Landsat-8 satellite image that was taken yesterday (September 2), and it shows two […]
Remember that 92-mile-long bilge dump off Congo and Angola that caught our attention back in April? The bright spot at the left end of the slick is likely the vessel that caused it. But the ASAR imagery left an important question unanswered: Who was responsible for this pollution? With the generous help of our new […]
UPDATE: We figured out who the culprit was! Read all about how we identified the guilty party- FROM SPACE: June 22, 2012: Bilge Dumping? Busted using Satellite Images Original Story: We’ve been collecting quite a number of images showing the ongoing problem of bilge dumping across the globe and here is one that really catches the eye. This […]
We’ve posted about bilge dumping before – the practice of flushing the oily slop out of your vessel, straight into the ocean. It’s illegal in a lot of places, but it is very hard to enforce. SkyTruth’s daily offshore monitoring program just caught this fine (awful?) example of bilge dumping off the coast of Vietnam, […]