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The disaster with the tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 is not the first marine emergency of this scale. In November 2007, a nearly identical emergency occurred in the Kerch Strait as a result of a strong storm: the oil tanker Volgoneft-139 broke apart. About 2 thousand tons of fuel oil spilled into the Sea of Azov. The consequences of the emergency were dealt with in a few months. At the same time, the expected increase in the content of oil products was not detected in the ecosystem of the Sea of Azov . Their concentrations either remained at the level of previous years or even decreased compared to 2007.
Tourism market experts believe that the ecological situation cyprus mobile database on the Black Sea beaches will be safe for swimming in the summer of 2025. Vice President of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) for domestic tourism Sergey Romashkin is confident that the consequences of the oil spill do not threaten to disrupt the summer tourist season in Anapa in 2025: “There is no threat to the season, since it is quite far from the current time. <…> For now, tourists are not thinking about the summer of 2025.”
General Director of the Atelika Hotel Group holding Alexey Vysokanov assures : "Judging by past incidents, we do not see any threat to the summer swimming season in Anapa yet. There are still six months until summer, the beaches and water area will undoubtedly be cleaned, and it will be safe to swim."