TY - JOUR
T1 - History of a disaster
T2 - A baseline assessment of the Wakashio oil spill on the coast of Mauritius, Indian Ocean
AU - Rajendran, Sankaran
AU - Aboobacker, V. M.
AU - Seegobin, Vashist O.
AU - Al Khayat, Jassim A.
AU - Rangel-Buitrago, Nelson
AU - Al-Kuwari, Hamad Al Saad
AU - Sadooni, Fadhil N.
AU - Vethamony, Ponnumony
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/2/1
Y1 - 2022/2/1
N2 - Oil spills from tanker ships provide adverse and irreversible impacts of a pollutant over coastal and marine environments. Using Sentinel-1 and 2 satellite images, this baseline paper presents the detection, assessment, and monitoring of the aground and further oil spill from the Wakashio ship of August 06, 2020, on the Mauritius coast. The oil spill started on August 06, after cracks developed on the hull, and continued until the total breakup of the ship on August 15, 2020. Data shows displacements in ship position of about 100 m, and a maximum change of 80° in orientation (from NS to NE). The remote sensing results were validated using met-ocean observations and reanalysis, which showed winds, waves, and tides of high magnitude at the accident site during the incident period. Analysis of the results of this event using REAS and CMEMS data indicate their usefulness to study similar future oil spills events.
AB - Oil spills from tanker ships provide adverse and irreversible impacts of a pollutant over coastal and marine environments. Using Sentinel-1 and 2 satellite images, this baseline paper presents the detection, assessment, and monitoring of the aground and further oil spill from the Wakashio ship of August 06, 2020, on the Mauritius coast. The oil spill started on August 06, after cracks developed on the hull, and continued until the total breakup of the ship on August 15, 2020. Data shows displacements in ship position of about 100 m, and a maximum change of 80° in orientation (from NS to NE). The remote sensing results were validated using met-ocean observations and reanalysis, which showed winds, waves, and tides of high magnitude at the accident site during the incident period. Analysis of the results of this event using REAS and CMEMS data indicate their usefulness to study similar future oil spills events.
KW - Coral reef
KW - Mauritius
KW - Met-Ocean data
KW - Oil spill
KW - Sentinel data
KW - Wakashio grounding
KW - Disasters
KW - Indian Ocean
KW - Ships
KW - Petroleum Pollution/analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113330
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113330
M3 - Article
C2 - 35066411
AN - SCOPUS:85123010520
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 175
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
M1 - 113330
ER -
