Deadly poison leak in Poole Harbour
Two people have died and seventy are hospitalized after two ferries collided in Poole Harbour at 10 o’clock yesterday morning.
Chief ferry loader Nick Gosney claimed that the accident was the result of a large hole in the ferry and a chain snapped. The two ferries that were involved were a commercial Sandbanks ship and a cargo ferry; the latter leaking a poisonous liquid into the water.
Talben Lee, 58 and a pollution consultant from Norway, has confirmed that the liquid is linandane, a highly toxic substance that causes ecological contamination.
Desperate passengers aboard the ferry jumped into the water, attempting to escape injury aboard the sinking ships. However the water was contaminated with linandane.
A spokesman for the Poole Coastguard has confirmed two deaths as a result of the incident. The bodies have yet to be identified, but are said to be that of a man and and a woman in their eighties.
An inflatable wall has been constructed around the coast to avoid future contamination, and the spillage is thought to have reached as far as the South East Henistbury coast line.
Fishing has been banned for the foreseeable future, as all sea life who have come in contact with the linandane will be contaminated and eventually die.
Enviromental agencies recommend not going near the water for 48 hours.
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