MV Tasman Spirit

The Tasman Spirit is a Greek registered oil tanker. The tanker was launched in February 1979 and was formerly called the Mabini and Kenko.

On July 28, 2003 she ran aground near the city of Karachi. Over 12,000 tons of oil spilled into the Arabian Sea in what is considered by some to be the largest environmental disaster in Pakistan's history. According to the IUCN 16 kilometres of coastline has been polluted.

The ship's insurer offered 10 million rupees (about $180,000 US dollars in 2003) in compensation to the Karachi port authorities, and agreed to pay all cleaning expenses.

References

• "Pakistan tackles huge oil spill". BBC. August 15, 2003. Retrieved 2007-10-29. 
• Tasman Spirit oil spill collection of articles at Coordination marée noire
• "Stricken tanker, Tasman Spirit, spills 33,000 tons of crude oil into the sea off the Karachi coast". World Wildlife Fund. July 28, 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2007-10-29. 

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 2003
Shipwrecks	22 Mar: RMS Mulheim 2 Apr: USS Bigelow 11 Apr: ROCS Lai Yang 16 Apr: 361 31 May: Fu Shan Hai 19 Jun: USS Richard E. Byrd 21 Jul: USS Dixon, USS Seneca 22 Jul: USS Samuel Gompers 29 Jul: USS Ingersoll 1 Aug: USS Leftwich, USS Merrill 15 Aug: USS Downes, USS Henry B. Wilson 8 Jul: Nazreen-1 28 Jul:Tasman Spirit 30 Aug: K-159 8 Oct: ROCS Fu Yang 14 Oct: ROCS An Yang, ROCS Huei Yang 18 Nov: USS Yosemite
Other incidents	13 May: HMS Tireless 15 Oct: Andrew J. Barberi 25 Oct: USS Hartford (grounding)
2002 2004