The ship ‘Adolf Jensen’, flying a Greenlandic flag, hit a reef and ran aground overnight Wednesday to Thursday off Greenland‘s coast: according to the police, “films of hydrocarbons are visible on the surface of the water in the Nanortalik fjords” in the south. Up to 20,000 litres (5,300 gallons) of fuel spilled and had reached the fjord despite the deployment of a pump and floating barrage. Everyone on board the passenger ship managed to evacuate. Thirty-metres-long and the ship was carrying 15-20,000 litres of diesel fuel in its tanks, in addition to 1,000 litres of engine oil. The environment and civil protection ministry requested assistance from the Arctic command of the Danish Navy to recover and treat the leaked fuel. On Friday, the firefighters were facing difficulties caused by wind, tides and sea currents, and scrambled to contain the diesel fuel spill that is damaging the fragile Arctic environment.
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