Cargo Business Newswire

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Drone captures footage of ship that broke up in Taiwan

The T.S. Taipei, the stranded cargo ship that literally broke in two off the coast of Taiwan on Friday, raised environmental alarms as huge amounts of oil flowed freely into the sea.

The ship stopped running on March 10th after it ran aground near the coast off New Taipei City. Attempts to salvage the ship were unsuccessful, and last Thursday cracks began to appear, until the entire ship snapped in two the next day.

The ship is continuing to break up, alarming

Taiwan's EPA who say that it still holds 242 tons of heavy oil on board, along with other toxic materials including tolune and potassium perchlorate, according to Focus Taiwan.

The broken ship has since been documented via drone by Freediver HD on YouTube.

For more of the Shanghai List story and the drone footage: shanghaiist.com