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‘HEARTBREAKING’: Nautilus Project chief says OS 35 oil spill was ‘extremely detrimental’ to Gibraltar

A MARINE protection group has highlighted the ‘heart-breaking’ Gibraltar oil spill that will affect local sea life for ‘at least a decade’. Nautilus Project co-founder...

Contractors give new date of June 16 for full removal of OS 35 shipwreck off Gibraltar’s coast

THE Dutch company employed by owners of the OS 35 to remove the shipwreck from Gibraltar’s coast will only be able to complete the...

Wreck removers extract over 33,000 tonnes of steel from remains of bulker off Gibraltar coast

CONTRACTORS have now removed all the cargo of steel bars stored in the shipwrecked bulk carrier off Gibraltar’s coast. Dutch company Koole brought out 33,632...

Workers redeploy oil barriers around OS 35 wreck as storm passes in Gibraltar and salvage continues

AS this week’s storm passed Friday, port workers got to work redeploying the floating oil barriers around the OS 35 shipwreck off Gibraltar’s coast. Captain...

New storm Sunday threatens further oil spills from stricken bulk carrier shipwreck off Gibraltar coast

THE shipwreck off Gibraltar’s coast is bracing itself for a new storm on Sunday that could further break it up and cause more oil...

OIL SPILL: Workers lay down protective boom around OS 35 shipwreck as storm passes

GIBRALTAR’S Port Authority has returned the oil barriers around the OS 35 as seas calmed down enough after last week’s Levante storm. Captain of the...

Workers clean up three Gibraltar beaches stained by fuel oil leak after beached ship breaks in two

CLEAN-UP crews have already started to comb Gibraltar’s Catalan Bay, Sandy Bay and Little Bay for oil stains and tarballs caused by the break-up...

DISASTER: More oil spills onto Gibraltar beaches after shipwreck breaks up further in latest storm

AUTHORITIES are urging people stay away from Gibraltar’s Eastside beaches after violent storms broke up the OS 35 shipwreck further, tragically blackening local beaches. Captain...

Salvage tug and barge remove cargo of metal poles from beached ship in Gibraltar

SALVAGE crews have started to remove the cargo of metal poles from the stricken bulk carrier beached on Gibraltar shores. A Koole tug and barge...

Crane barge starts to break up OS 35 bulk carrier shipwrecked in Gibraltar waters

A WRECK removal company has started to take away the cranes from the beached bulk carrier lying off the coast of Gibraltar since August. The...

Shipwreck remover Koole takes over operation to break up remains of beached OS 35 on Gibraltar shores

WRECK removal contractor Koole is taking over from caretakers Resolve in looking after the bulk carrier shipwreck 700 metres from the Gibraltar coastline. Captain of...

Wreck removal tugs head to Gibraltar as OS 35 shipwreck gets stripped down to bare metal structure

SALVAGE crews are continuing to strip down the bulk carrier beached in Gibraltar waters as the machinery needed to remove it gets ready to...

Wreck removal equipment heads to Gibraltar to remove sunken OS 35 bulk carrier after port gives green light

GIBRALTAR’S port has accepted new plans to remove the shipwreck of the OS 35 that beached 700 metres from Catalan Bay at the end...

OIL SPILL: Stranded ship off Gibraltar coast gets back its boom after wave damage

THE sunken shipwreck in Gibraltar is now releasing less oil than before as port workers repaired part of its protective boom. Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA)...

Gibraltar port gives owners May 30 ultimatum to remove oil-polluting ship from its coastal grave

THE OS 35 shipwreck must be fully removed from its location 700m off Catalan Bay by May 30 next year, the Captain of Gibraltar...

Gibraltar oil spill cleanup continues amid fears of pollution harming fish and beaches along the coast

AUTHORITIES have advised the public to stop fishing and not to eat anything caught in Gibraltar seas as the cleanup of the latest oil...

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