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Beach clean-up after oil spill

Oil-coated material from beach after oil spill from Rena wreck

Oil-coated material is manually scraped from rocks on the beach after an oil spill.

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Rights: Maritime New Zealand
Published: 16 November 2011Size: 44.23 KB
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