2.A.4.3 The 100,000 ton oil tanker Nassia, on fire near the Bosphorus on March 1994

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The accident released some 5,000 tons of oil to the Black Sea and posed on enormous security risk to the city of Istanbul.
Photo: BSEP, Laurence D. Mee.


See also

2.A.4.3 Reduction and regulation of operational discharges (vessels)
2.A.4.3 Tanker traffic through and within the Black Sea during 1995
2.A.4.2 Municipal garbage dumped in a sensitive Black Sea wetland
2.B.3 The Black Sea coast
2.C.2.1 Sea cages for salmon and trout
2.C.3 Ecological demonstration in Turkey
3.B.1.2 Mnemiopsis leidyi jelly
3.C.2.1 Trout shore-based aquaculture