Oil spill reaches Tablas Strait, Tayabas Bay

(Photo courtesy of PhilSA)

By Gabriela Baron

Oil spill from the sunken vessel off Naujan, Oriental Mindoro reached Tablas Strait in Oriental Mindoro, based on the latest satellite image from the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).

PhilSA’s satellite image taken from March 31 to April 2 showed a possible oil spill reaching Tablas Strait and Tayabas Bay in Oriental Mindoro.

Tablas Strait is a strait separating Mindoro Island from Panay and Romblon Islands, meanwhile, Tayabas Bay is bordered on the north and east side by Quezon Province.

According to PhilSA, the maps were processed from the images captured by the Copernicus European Union’s Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites and retrieved from the International Charter Space and Major Disasters.

“The Disasters Charter is a worldwide collaboration of various space agencies and other space-related institutions through which satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster management,” PhilSA said. – cf

 

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