Sunken ship’s oil threatens island coast

Cleanup crews struggled to avert a major oil spill at one of the Mediterranean Sea’s most picturesque destinations after a sunken cruise ship leaked dozens of tons of oil off the resort island of Santorini at the start of the tourist season.

Greek engineers expressed hope they could prevent an environmental disaster as crews worked to siphon fuel from the Sea Diamond, which went down Friday after hitting a submerged reef. A French passenger and his daughter were feared drowned, and nearly 1,600 people, most U.S. citizens, were evacuated.

An unmanned submarine examined wreckage of the 469-foot ship, but found no sign of the missing passengers or the vessel’s voyage data recorder.