US EditionSalvage complete of tanker at center of oil spill scare after being hit by Houthi rebels in Red Sea
- An oil tanker named Sounion has been salvaged after being attacked by Yemen's Houthis, which threatened a massive oil spill in the Red Sea.
- The Houthis attacked the Sounion with small arms fire, projectiles, and a drone boat on Aug. 21, 2023, leading to a rescue by a French destroyer.
- The U.S. State Department warned that a spill from the Sounion would have been four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 off Alaska.
- The Houthis have targeted about 100 merchant vessels since the war in Gaza started in October 2023, maintaining that they target ships linked to Israel, the U.S., or the U.K.
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Tanker hit by Houthis that threatened Red Sea spill salvaged
An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a massive oil spill has been "successfully" salvaged, a security firm said Friday. The Sounion had been a disaster in waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard that had been struck and later sabotaged with explosives by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels. It took months for salvagers to tow the vessel away, extinguish the fires and offload the remaining cr…
About half a year after the attack by Houthi rebels on an oil tanker in the Red Sea, the salvage of the ship has been successfully completed.
Tanker hit by Yemen militia that threatened Red Sea spill has been
DUBAI: An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a massive oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, a security firm said Friday. The Sounion had been a disaster in waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard that had been struck and later sabotaged with explosives by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi militia. It took months for
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Tanker hit by Houthi rebels that threatened a Red Sea oil spill has been salvaged - Seymour Tribune
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea after being attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and threatening a massive oil spill has been salvaged, a security firm said Friday. The Sounion had been a disaster-in-waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard that had been struck and later sabotaged with explosives by the Iranian-backed Houthis as part of their campaign over the Israel-H…
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