“On the night of January
1st-2nd of this year, MSC Zoe, one of the largest container ships in the
world, lost at least 345 containers during a spate of rough weather in the
North Sea. About 150 of them were lost north of the German island of Borkum,
another 200 or so southwest of that near the Dutch island of Terschelling.
Whole containers and some of their contents — including electronics, toys,
clothing, furniture and potentially explosive organic peroxides — were found on
the shores of Borkum, Terschelling and the Dutch islands Vlieland, Ameland and
Schiermonnikoog.
“With so many containers and
their contents, some hazardous, adrift in the ecologically sensitive coastal
waters of the Frisian islands, Dutch salvage teams have been scouring the North
Sea bed to clean up the debris. A salvage crew working a busy shipping lane
found wood beams and copper sheets from a shipwreck and alerted
authorities.”
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