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Ievoli Sun - English Channel, north of the Isle of Batz
A double-hulled chemical tanker sinking head-first due to water leaking in through the air pipes, required an assessment and response team to be helicopter-lifted to the vessel in extreme weather conditions in order to hitch it to the Abeille Flandre tug and thus prevent it from breaking up on the rocks of Guernsey and spilling its cargo of highly-toxic chemicals and endangering the local population.
