CLEANUP OF ERIKA OIL SPILL

Koseq was involved in the Erika oil spill cleanup on December of 1999. Erika was a Maltese tanker loaded with 30,000 t0ns of heavy fuel oil. It broke up into two parts in bad weather and sank 40 miles off the Brittany coast. The OSRV “Arca”,  which has Koseq sweeping arms, recovered 630 m3.