Helicopters may be used to remove oil containers from ghost ship

Wreck of the ghost ship MV Alta which was driven aground during Storm Dennis near Ballycotton, Co. Cork, Ireland. The 70 meter freighter first made headlines in October 2018 when the US Coast Guard rescued its crew aboard the disabled ship 1,380 miles southeast of Bermuda.

Sealed containers of oil that pose an environmental threat if spilled discovered on board a ghost ship beached on rocks in Ballycotton may have to be helicoptered off the ship’s top deck.