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March 4, 2021 Authorities in Ireland are still working through details of what to do with a grounded cargo ship that has been stranded along the country’s rugged southwest coast for more than a year. The MV Alta actually has quite the back story. The 250-foot Tanzania-flagged ship had been abandoned at sea for over a year when it finally washed up in Cork County, Ireland back on February 16, 2020. The vessel first made made headlines in October 2018 when the U.S. Coast Guard rescued Alta’s...

The US Coast Guard had previously rescued the ships’ crew 2,000km southeast of Bermuda in October 2018. It’s believed the ship had been travelling to Haiti from Greece.  Cork County Council has recruited international experts to advise on what steps it should take to deal with the grounded ghost ship.  It’s believed specialists will examine the steel hull of the ship and determine the next steps.  The abandoned ship is stuck on rocks near Ballycotton (Image: Getty Images) The council ...

An international team of experts in hazardous waste have carried out an environmental assessment of the shipwreck the MV Alta on behalf of Cork County Council.

Council recruits international experts to advise on ghost ship off Cork coast Abandoned MV Alta drifted across Atlantic and washed up in Ballyandreane a year ago Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 13:52 The abandoned cargo ship MV Alta stuck on rocks near the village of Ballycotton southeast of Cork. File photograph: Cathal Noonan/AFP via Getty   Cork County Council has recruited international experts to advise on what steps it should take to deal with the grounded ‘ghost ship’, MV Alta which washed up o...

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