Abstract
Abstract
Locating and documenting potentially polluting wrecks is essential in determining the risks they pose to causing oil spills as weaking hulls in the marine environment continue to corrode. Expeditions in 2019 and 2021 to two World War II oil tankers, Coimbra and Munger T. Ball, assessed the site formation processes and integrity of the hulls for pollution mitigation. This was followed by remediation that removed large amounts of oil from the tanks accessible on these wrecks. Lessons learned indicate that such approaches to shipwrecks in deeper waters may prove useful to locating wrecks and mitigating future potential spills.
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Research Square Platform LLC
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