Documents reveal a World War II era shipwreck could trigger a $200 million oil spill clean up but the government ... It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has ...

Photo / Australian National Maritime Museum Documents reveal a World War II-era shipwreck could trigger a $200 million oil spill clean-up ... Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its ...

Major spills, such as the Gulf War oil spill (in 1991) and Deepwater Horizon (2010), continue to have a lasting impact on the marine ecosystem.