Brazilian Navy to sink 'ghost' aircraft carrier. Why is it controversial?
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Brazilian Navy to sink 'ghost' aircraft carrier. Why is it controversial?
The Brazilian Navy said on Wednesday that it will sink a decommissioned aircraft carrier that has been floating offshore for three months since Turkey refused it entry to be scrapped there. Brazil plans to abandon its biggest warship despite calls to not do it because of the environmental hazard. The carrier São Paulo is from the 1960s and has been floating abandoned in the South Atlantic Ocean for five months. It is the largest Brazilian w
Brazilian Navy announced that it will sink “ghost” aircraft carriers in the Atlantic
Brazilian authorities explained that there is no other alternative for the aircraft carrier that has been wandering at sea for five months, because it is “inevitable” that it will sink spontaneously. The “Sao Paulo” only sailed 85,334 kilometers for 206 days in 15 years.
Brazilian authorities decide to sink aircraft carriers
O Ministério da Defesa, a Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU) e a Marinha do Brasil divulgaram nesta quarta-feira (1º), em Brasília, uma nota conjunta na qual apresentam - como solução para o imbróglio envolvendo o destino de um porta-aviões fora de operação - o seu afundamento. A medida recebeu críticas de ambientalistas – entre eles, a ministra do Meio Ambiente, Marina Silva – preocupados com os efeitos que o afundamento da embarcação poderia causa…
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