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NAME: SKO OIL 20071209I TAPE: EF07/1470 IN_TIME: 10:57:16:07 DURATION: 00:02:07:24 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Mallipo Beach - 9 Dec 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of sea shore of Mallipo Beach 2. The oil tanker, which spilt tens of thousands of crude oil into the ocean 3. Various of sea wave being mixed with black oil 4. Residents of feet and their foot prints 5. Wide of residents cleaning the oil 6. Residents scooping oil with shovels 7. Close-up of residents scooping oil with dustpans 8. SOUNDBITE (Korean): Oh Ok-bong, a 72-year-old resident: "I don't know what to say. We're heavily depending our lives on this sea, but it has been contaminated. there isn't any plan for us." 9. SOUNDBITE (Korean) : Gu Ung-pyo, a 74-year-old resident: "I don't know if this would take two years or three years (to clean all up). This is very serious. Everything is ruined." 10. Wide pan of residents and volunteers cleaning the seashore 11. Mid of residents and volunteers 12. Coast Guards vessels cleaning the contaminated water 13. Volunteers taking out of the tanks of oil 14. Various of volunteers pouring the oil to a larger tank 15. Tilt-down from residents to two oil drums 16. Close-up of purifying tank truck sucking the oil out of the drums SOUNDBITE: (Korean): Lee Young-ho, a Coast Guard official in Namhae seashore: "Right now we have about 3,500 people, including the coast guards and volunteers, coming out and helping to clean the water. We'll have about 5-thousand people continuously helping in this." 17. Wide of people cleaning the seashore 18. Mid of people scooping the oil with shovels 19. Wide of seashore STORYLINE: South Korea's Coast Guard mobilised thousands of people on Sunday to clean up a disastrous oil spill polluting a swathe of the country's scenic and environmentally rich western coast. About 100 ships, including Coast Guard, navy and private fishing boats, were to help contain and clean up the spill, South Korea's worst ever, said Coast Guard Official Lee Young-ho. Lee said about 5-thousand people, including government personnel, local residents and volunteers, were expected to participate. "Right now we have about 3,500 people, including the coast guards and volunteers, coming out and helping to clean the water. We'll have about 5-thousand people continuously helping in this," Lee said. The oil started hitting beaches, including Mallipo, on Saturday after a Hong Kong-registered supertanker was slammed the day before by a South Korean-owned barge that came unmoored from its tugboat in rough seas. A total of 66-thousand barrels (10.5 (m) million liters (2.7 (m) million gallons) of crude gushed into the ocean, more than twice as much as in South Korea's worst previous spill in 1995. Thick, smelly waves of crude washed ashore, turning seagulls black and threatening fish farms along a 17-kilometre (11-mile) stretch of coast, despite efforts to block it, including dropping oil fences into the ocean and the use of chemicals to break it up. The Coast Guard said the last of three leaks in the tanker had been plugged Sunday. Mallipo is one of South Korea's best-known beaches, an important stopover for migrating birds, including snipe, mallards and great crested grebes, and has an abundant fishing industry. Oh Ok-bong, a 72-year-old resident, came to the beach on Sunday to help, but despaired for the area where he has lived for 30 years. "I don't know what to say. We're heavily depending our lives on this sea, but it has been contaminated. there isn't any plan for us," he said. The central government has designated the oil spill a "disaster," which makes it easier for regional governments to mobilize personnel, equipment and material to cope with the situation. But it stopped short of declaring the region a "disaster area," which would make residents eligible for government financial aid, despite pleas to do so. The accident occurred about 11 kilometers (7 miles) off Mallipo. The area also includes a national maritime park. The Coast Guard said it was unclear how many days the operation would take. The accident occurred on Friday morning when a crane-carrying barge en route from a construction site lost control after a wire linking it to the tugboat was cut due to high winds, waves and currents. The vessel then slammed into the Hebei Spirit tanker. Neither ship was in danger of sinking and there were no casualties. The tanker had been at anchor and carrying about 260-thousand tons - about 1.8 (m) million barrels - of crude oil to be loaded into boats from a nearby port. The size of the leak reported by the authorities would be about one-fourth that of the 260-thousand barrels, or 11(m) million gallons, spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound by the Exxon Valdez in 1989. The spill was also smaller than one in Pakistan in 2003 when a Greek-registered ship ran aground near Karachi, leaking some 195,940 barrels (8.2 (m) million gallons) of crude that polluted the city's main beaches.

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