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Satellite imagery busts tanker in Land's End pollution case
October 9, 2013
In a landmark hearing last Friday the owner of a tanker that polluted the sea off Land’s End has been prosecuted using satellite image evidence.
It is the first time that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has used such images as evidence in a hearing, anywhere in the country.
It has led to the tanker owner being ordered to pay £22,500 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to a breach of UK maritime pollution legislation at Truro’s Magistrates’ Court.
On February 25 last year a satellite operated by European Maritime Safety Agency detected a ship trailing a slick in the waters between Land’s End and the Isles of Scilly, and a report was made to the MCA. The ship was identified as the Singapore registered tanker Maersk Kiera. The slick was within 12 miles of land.