The World - News from Oct. 20, 1987
Anti-pollution militants disabled an incinerator ship in the North Sea by jamming its propeller with a cable, a spokesman for the ship’s owners said in The Hague. The Vulcanus II was burning its load of 3,000 tons of chemical waste at an incineration site off the Dutch coast when Danish fishing boats and a vessel from the Greenpeace environmental group approached. “They got a cable into the propeller and jammed it,” a spokesman for Ocean Combustion Services said. “It (the ship) began drifting and had to stop the incineration.” Danish fishermen and environmentalists fear that the waste burning will endanger marine life.
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