Remember When I Wrote About that Container Ship Full of Toxic Waste from Burned Electric Cars, and I Said It Would Be Forgotten Because It Sank In International Waters??

The BBC, which last I checked prided itself on being a fairly comprehensive new service, published an article entitled "How to Rescue the World's Biggest Cargo Ships" (ungated version available here). It has 399 hits on Google already.

It makes zero mention of the Felicity Ace fire, abandonment, and sinking. I covered that extensively in February 2022 until the final post about it on March 1. But it did spend a lot of time on 3 other ship losses that were further back in time and further away distance-wise from where the author was presumably working in London.

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Being in international waters far from posh restaurants, entertaining bars, and free wifi, makes it easy to ignore.

Being filled with tons of flammable electric vehicles full of hazardous waste make it desirable to ignore.

P.S. Due note that if you're going to have an environmental disaster, it is better to have it out in the salt water, away from humans on land and the fresh water sources we depend on.