The Red Sea could face an ecological disaster if an abandoned tanker called the FSO Safer breaks up and spills more than a million barrels of oil off the coast of Yemen. It’s estimated that the region’s ecosystem would take 25 years to recover in the event of an oil spill.
WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen explains what’s at stake in this high-risk operation to prevent an environmental catastrophe.
0:00 Preventing an oil spill
0:39 Background on the FSO Safer
1:54 The operation
2:51 The stakes
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