Aerial footage taken Sunday, August 16, shows the wreckage of the ship that split and leaked more than 1,000 tons of oil off the Mauritius coast.
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READ MORE: Work began Monday to remove the two pieces of a grounded Japanese ship that leaked tons of oil onto the protected coast of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius.
Tugboats will pull the bow — the smaller part of the shipwrecked MV Wakashio — out to sea and allow it to sink, according to environmental experts on the island. The larger part of the ship will be dragged off the coral reef where it ran aground and towed away, possibly to India for salvage.
"When the ship split in two, there was further leakage of oil, but it appears most of that fuel was on the other side of the coral reef and was in the high seas," Sunil Dowarkasing, an environmental consultant and former parliament member in Mauritius. "With the sea currents, we don't know if the new leakage will stay outside the lagoon or not."
Oil barriers were in place, and a skimmer ship to scoop up the fuel was nearby.
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