Philippine fishermen struggle as oil spill keeps them ashore

Pola, Philippines (AFP) March 29, 2023

A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as Philippine fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from the rocks along the shore. Four weeks after a Philippine tanker loaded with 800,000 litres (210,000 gallons) of thick oil sank off the central island of Mindoro, the vessel is still leaking. More than half the oil has been disch