Scotland, of course, has seen its own serious tanker oil spill, now over three decades old, when the MV Braer, caught in a storm off Shetland, had its hull ripped in two, and 85,000 tonnes of ...

On Monday, the US-flagged oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate collided with the Portuguese ... Scientists are looking at past incidents, such as the 1993 MV Braer spill off the Shetland Isles, for insight.