The government has declared an environmental emergency and France said it was sending help from its nearby Reunion island. Mauritius says the ship, the MV Wakashio, was carrying nearly 4,000 tons of fuel. For days, residents peered out at the precariously tilted ship as a salvage team arrived and began to work, but ocean waves kept battering the ship. “They just hit and hit and hit,” Gardenne said. Cracks in the hull were detected a few days ago and the salvage team was quickly evacuated.

Source: The Standard August 09, 2020 07:18 UTC