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South China Sea, Mediterranean And North Sea are shipping accident hotspots

A new study, released by WWF for World Oceans Day The waters around the British Isles are home to one of the highest numbers of shipping accidents in the world, according to a new study released by WWF for World Oceans Day (8th June).The busy shipping lanes around the British Isles, North Sea and Bay of Biscay had the fourth largest number of shipping accidents in the world, with 135 reported incidents between 1999 and 2011 including fires, collisions and leakage of toxic waste. The North Sea is one of the most intensively sailed seas in the world with over 120,000 ship movements taking place there every year. The South China Sea and East Indies, east Mediterranean and Black Sea, were also found to be dangerous hotspots for accidents involving ships.Since 1999 there have been 293 shipping accidents in the South China Sea and East Indies, home of the Coral Triangle and 76 per cent of the world's coral species. As recently as April this year a Chinese fishing boat has run aground on a protected coral reef in the Philippines that had already been damaged by a US Navy ship in January.Image credit: WWFFishing vessels accounted for nearly a ...

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