An ocean catastrophe is slowly unfolding off the coast of Yemen

[Mike Wehner]

• A massive oil tanker that was abandoned off the coast of Yemen is now on the verge of dumping its inky black cargo into the Red Sea.
• The tanker, which has been abandoned since 2015, is owned by a company that says it doesn't have the ability to retrieve or maintain it.
• A civil war in Yemen has complicated matters, with insurgents controlling the port where the tanker was abandoned.

Oil spills are some of the most devastating man-made natural disasters, and oftentimes they come out of nowhere. A ship colliding with something and spilling its contents into the ocean is, unfortunately, often unpredictable, and it's not until after the catastrophe has taken place that any action can be taken to clean up the mess and prevent loss of animal life or mitigate damage to the environment.

Off the coast of Yemen, a very interesting but nonetheless tragic situation is unfolding, and it centers around the oil tanker named "Safer." Safer was abandoned in 2015 at a port that is stuck in the middle of Yemen's civil war, and now, five years later, the ship is nearing its breaking point, threatening to dump its massive one-million-barrel payload of oil into the Red Sea, potentially spreading to the ocean.

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