Navy confirms it will sink scrap aircraft carrier with toxic material

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Shipwreck will take place 350 kilometers off the Brazilian coast, in an area with a depth of approximately 5,000 meters

Navy/DisclosureDecommissioned aircraft carrier São Paulo will be sunk

O defense Ministry it’s at navy confirmed this Wednesday, the 1st, that they are going to sink the decommissioned aircraft carrier São Paulo. For months the ship has been wandering at sea after being banned from entering the Brazil and abroad because it contains a toxic substance in the hull. According to the note of the two institutions, the shipwreck is inevitable. In a note, both communicated that the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) will take appropriate judicial and extrajudicial measures to “repair and safeguard the interests of the Brazilian State”. However, it was not detailed what measures will be taken in this case. A company from Saudi Arabia even offered BRL 30 million to buy a retired aircraft carrier. However, the Navy, responsible for operating the decommissioned ship, stated that there is an “increasing risk involved in the towing task” due to the deterioration of the “buoyancy conditions of the case”. The agency says that there is “inevitability of spontaneous/uncontrolled sinking” and argues that it is not possible to adopt any other course of action, other than sinking the vessel. The wreck will take place 350 kilometers off the Brazilian coast, in an area with a depth of approximately 5,000 meters. THE Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) had already informed that the Navy would sink the aircraft carrier. The institute is not in favor of the measure and defends that the ship be taken to a Brazilian port to be renovated. THE Federal Public Ministry (MPF) asked the Justice to prohibit the Navy from carrying out the sinking. However, the request was rejected.

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