By the end of Tuesday 30 out of the 145 tonnes of bunker fuel onboard the grounded Benita had been taken off the ship by salvors Five Ocean Salvage.
had been taken off the ship by salvors Five Ocean Salvage.The fuel offloading of the stricken ship which smashed into reefs off Mauritius last Friday is expected to be completed in another couple of days, although bad weather has made the operation more tricky. Some fuel has already hit the local shoreline – clean up efforts are underway.
The ship grounded as a result of a fight onboard the bulker and a suspected mutiny attempt, which led to the engines being cut off and one seafarer being gravely injured in the head, who has since been put into an induced coma at a local hospital.
