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2010 March 2   10:48

Griffin-4 ship sinks, oil spill reported near Obukhovsky dockyard

A Griffin-4 vessel sank yesterday in the Sea of Azov, near the Obukhovsky dockyard (Obukhovsky SSR-3 CSJC, Azov district of Rostov region), PorPrirodNadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage) press office said.  A team of federal inspectors of the RosPrirodNadzor has moved to the scene to investigated into the incident.
 
According to Novosti RIA, quoting Julia Gorbacheva, a senior inspector of Rosprirodnadzor in the Southern Federal District, an oil spill has been registered at the scene. "The volume of the spill is being specified", Mrs. Gorbacheva said. Further details on the pollution and its extent would be reported in a week over, the expert said.

Oil spill response services were conducting an operation to collect oil patches and liquidate waters pollution, the RosPrirodNadzor representative said.

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