Oil Boom Testing - Philippines 2006

Greenpeace swimmers and local fishermen test oil booms made from local materials to try to protect beaches from bunker oil spilled from sunken tanker. The spill began on August 11 when Solar 1, a Petron-chartered single hull vessel, carrying 2.1 million litres of oil, sank in the Guimaras
Strait, about 500km southeast of Manila. According to Coast guard, district commander Capt Luis Tuazon, about 350 000 litres of oil had
already been spilled from the tanker. Greenpeace called on the Philippine government to hold oil firm Petron and its partners accountable for damages to the environment and people’s livelihoods resulting from the worst oil spill in Philippine history.