Seems like a ship/tanker has run aground and will be beached somewhere along the Devon coast. Given that the ship is no doubt seriously damaged, they'll be some pollution problems:
"The MSC Napoli, which was holed in the English Channel on Thursday, is carrying more than 2,330 containers.
A "small proportion" includes industrial and agricultural chemicals, according to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
The ship was beached following "serious structural failure", the MCA said."
Anyone in the area care to comment?
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an update on the environmental impact of the looters:
"MCA spokesman Mark Clark said that had warnings not to touch the containers been followed, they would have been removed and the beach returned to normality quite soon.
"They have quadrupled our task," he said.
"People are lighting fires beside the containers, getting on top of them ripping stuff out, and not heeding our warnings."
"The MCA is deeply upset and angry because all the stuff which has been ripped out of the containers will be swept out to sea and have an environmental impact," he said.
I have to agree with a line in the article that says greed has driven people to loot the cargo. I hadn't been aware, but people are not only taking the goods, but breaking containers that are still intact and then taking the goods. This is completely wrong and yes, creating much more of an environmental hazard.
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