Like most residents¡¯ weekend in Singapore¡¯s expensive seaside enclave on the resort island of Sentosa, Odhran Dodd¡¯s began with the stink of oil fumes.
¡°Oh, you could smell it from seven o¡¯clock this morning,¡± Dodd said on Saturday at Sentosa Cove, a development favored by wealthy expats. ¡°We certainly don¡¯t get anything as putrid as this.¡±
The beach shore where his four- and seven-year-old often play was coated black on Saturday after an oil spill the previous afternoon, when Netherlands-flagged dredger Vox Maxima hit and ruptured the bunker-fuel vessel Marine Honour at the Pasir Panjang Terminal up the coast.
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