UN begins salvage operation to stop catastrophic oil spill off Yemen
The United Nations has started a operation to remove 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker moored off Yemen's Red Sea coast./ A salvage vessel with a crew of experts reached the FSO Safer on Tuesday./ They will undertake work to make it secure for oil to be transferred to another tanker, Nautica, which is due to sail from Djibouti next month./ There is an imminent risk that the Safer could explode or break apart, causing an environmental catastrophe./ The UN has so far raised $114m (£92m) to pay for the unprecedented ...
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