• the Argo Merchant, a derelict oil tanker, ran aground only 25 miles off Nantucket Island in 1976, causing one of the largest oil spills in history?

Facts on topics related to Oil spill

Marine pollution

• Scripps marine chemist Edward D. Goldberg suggested using mussels to measure the amount of pollution in the oceans?
• the European Maritime Safety Agency was founded in 2002 to help prevent maritime accidents and marine pollution, in response to the Estonia, Erika and Prestige sea disasters?

Marine debris

• Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii, along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Ocean acidification

• climate change and rising ocean acidity are affecting fisheries and modifying fish distributions?

Pollution

• yellow-band disease is a disease that attacks colonies of coral when the coral is under stress from pollution, overfishing, and climate change?
• a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage channel?