To help prevent accidental oil spills the ship features a double hull configuration, in compliance with MARPOL 73/78.
Other threats identified in this region are fisheries and occasional oil spills from ships [58], [76].
Demagogues in the nativist movement incited fury and fear about the huge numbers of impoverished German and Irish Catholic immigrants, many barely speaking English, who spilled off ships.
A debris field covering about 5 x 3 mi around the wreck contains hundreds of thousands of items spilled from ship as she sank, ranging from passengers' personal effects to machinery, furniture, utensils and coal, as well as fragments of the ship herself.
Arctic Coast: The arctic coast is currently exposed to multiple threats, including climate change, sea ice loss, shipping, oil spills, and offshore oil and gas development.
Increased ship traffic from oil tankers, freight vessels, and cruise ships produces underwater noise, oil spills, whale-ship strikes, and invasive species.
In a 1982 question-and-answer session, Watt argued that offshore drilling poses far less of a threat to the environment than importing crude oil on ships ― "If those ships spill, we'll have disaster!" he declared.
Other sources such as losses of pre-production plastics during transport and spills (approx. 5 %), abrasion from ship paints, other protective paints, house and road paints (approx. 17 %), release of textile fibres during household and commercial laundry (approx. 8 %) and, especially, abrasion from tyres (approx. 54 %) were considered more relevant.
Other threats include shipping accidents, oil spills, and tropical cyclones.
At the port in Nacala, the local harbor was wrecked and two ships sank; one of the damaged ships spilled oil into the Bay of Nacala.
