![]() has much of that on hand, they say they still need $24 million to fully fund the effort.īut even with that gap, this week they commenced the "high-risk," two-part operation. They have estimated it will cost about $144 million to complete the mission, and while the U.N. started an online crowdfunding campaign to raise the money to do so. The official launch of the mission to prevent such a disaster comes a year after the U.N. What is the U.N.'s plan to address the problem? The VLCC Nautica is a very large crude carrier secured by UNDP to sail to the FSO Safer just off the coast of Yemen, and take on the oil from Safer. The back-and-forth ended up putting a halt to all operations on the ship in 2015. When that war began between the country's government and Houthi rebels, the ship became a bargaining trip for the two sides. The current situation is rooted in the Yemen civil war, which has been ongoing since 2014. How did FSO Safer get stuck in the Red Sea? "It would take 25 years for fish stocks to recover." The FSO Safer is located a few miles off the coast of Yemen. Hundreds of thousands of jobs in the fishing industry would be lost almost overnight," the U.N. "Coastal communities would be hit hardest. estimates it would cost $20 billion to clean up and could affect 17 million people while destroying coral reefs, mangroves and other forms of sea life, making it "one of the worst oil spills in human history." If this tanker were to burst open, the U.N. In 2020, the U.N.'s Environment executive director Inger Andersen warned that if the oil on that ship was to leak into the water, it could unleash four times more oil than what was released in Alaska's Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, which affected more than 1,300 miles of shoreline and killed thousands of birds and sea otters, hundreds of seals and nearly two dozen killer whales. Officials have been pushing for the situation to be addressed for years. "There is a serious risk the vessel could be struck by a floating mine, spontaneously explode or break apart at any moment." First photos of the FSO Safer taken from the salvage vessel Ndeavor which arrived alongside the Safer on May 30, 2023. "Its structural integrity is compromised, and it is deteriorating rapidly," the U.N. The massive 47-year-old supertanker, FSO Safer, rests just about 5 1/2 miles off of Yemen's coast, where it has gone without maintenance for seven years. Sitting off the coast of Yemen lies a nearly half-century-old ship with roughly 1.14 million barrels of crude oil on board, the global agency said – and it's "deteriorating rapidly." While Jones and Dominguez did not fill out a bracket this year, the team of Daniel Bestul, Greg Bintz, Zach Glander, and Jordon Lawrenz created a survey to see how other students filled out their brackets.The United Nations officially launched its mission this week to prevent what it says could be an "environmental catastrophe" on the Red Sea. However, the game brought about unwanted criticism due to extremely poor officiating and an incident towards the end of the game that sparked controversy about taunting from Reese to Clark.ĭespite the setback in momentum, fans and students still enjoyed March Madness, both on the men’s and women’s sides. It culminated with phenoms Caitlin Clark of Iowa and Angela Reese of LSU taking center stage in the women’s National Championship game. Women’s March Madness games were broadcast across the ESPN family of networks, including national games on ABC, gaining massive nationwide attention along the way. Women’s sports, more so basketball, have picked up major steam in recent months. Zach Glander and Greg Bintz arrived at the watch party early to take a few pictures of the set-up and wide variety of food at the event (Photo Credit: Zach Glander) Yet, the men’s side of the sport still attracts well and gets more profit.” “Especially this year, our women’s basketball team did really well, while our men’s team wasn’t very good. ![]() “Like here, our women’s sports are better than our men’s sports right now,” explained Jones. Both Jones and Dominguez had a strong opinion on getting women’s sports more in the picture. Both said they were casual sports fans but were looking forward to the food and social side of the event. Two individuals who came to the event were UWGB students Nia Jones and Karina Dominguez. Students shared their thoughts on the importance of women’s basketball and women’s sports overall being in the spotlight more recently, plus how their brackets fared in this year’s March Madness. On Friday, March 31, Good Times Programming hosted a Final Four Watch Party for the Women’s Final Four in the University Union.Īlong with the pair of games, students were able to delight in free food, which included wings and a dessert. By Jordon Lawrenz, Greg Bintz, Zach Glander, and Daniel Bestul
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