Monsoon Winds Halt Caroline Bezengi Salvage Effort Off Dhofar

Forty-knot winds and four-metre swells shut down salvage work at the Caroline Bezengi on August 17. The Khareef shut it down.

The ship grounded on June 30 near Al Qibliyah Island off the Dhofar coast, carrying roughly 800,000 barrels of Russian crude. That cargo is still aboard. Oman's authorities put the oil slick at 400 square kilometres as of early August; Ambrey, which has been coordinating the response, estimated the slick at 2,000 square kilometres. Cleanup crews have been working a 12-kilometre stretch of coastline.

The Caroline Bezengi is a sanctioned ship.