Crew members on a 180-meter cargo vessel reported the bunker oil spill at around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday as the vessel was in dock at the Nanaimo cruise vessel terminal. The Canadian Coast Guard mentioned that an unconfirmed amount of heavy fuel oil had spilled during “a fuel transfer.”
Three big oil-spill-response vessels had been sent out from the Western Canada Marine Response Corp (abbreviated WCMRC) based in Nanaimo, and the containment booms were around the Maipo River as the heavy bunker...