If leakage of oil and chemicals from sunken vessel grows worse, Kerala's already troubled fisheries industry may come to its ...

The possible repercussions of the oil spill in Arabian Sea include threats to marine biodiversity including fish stocks, benthic organisms (creatures living on the seafloor), and sensitive coastal ...

"They have a protocol in place for that. Scientifically, if calcium carbide mixes with water, it can produce acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. Acetylene is a highly inflammable gas when it ...

Mumbai, May 26 (PTI) The Directorate General of Shipping has been directed to monitor the situation arising out of the capsizing and sinking of a Liberian cargo ship off the Kerala coast, at every two ...

Over two dozen containers from a cargo vessel that sank 14 nautical miles from Cochin washed up on beaches in Kerala on Monday ...

“They have a protocol in place for that. Scientifically, if calcium carbide mixes with water, it can produce acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. Acetylene is a highly inflammable gas when it ...

According to the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), the sunken vessel had 84.44 metric tonnes of diesel and 367.1 metric tonnes of furnace oil in its tanks ... as calcium carbide, a chemical that reacts with ...

A Liberian cargo ship sank off the Kerala coast, causing an oil spill. DG Shipping is monitoring the situation every two ...

The ship was carrying 13 containers of hazardous cargo and 12 with calcium carbide—a chemical that reacts with seawater to release acetylene ... of furnace oil in its tanks," the Indian Coast ...

Amid concerns of oil from the ship’s fuel tanks affecting ... cargo and calcium carbide –– a chemical that reacts dangerously with seawater to release highly flammable acetylene gas.