At 11:30 PM on the evening of Saturday June 8, 1990,[REF] an explosion in the cargo room of the Norwegian oil tanker the Mega Borg "ruptured the bulkhead between the pump room and the engine room",[REF] causing the ship to catch fire and begin to leak oil [REF].
The fire caused by the initial explosion took eight days to burn out, making it hard for firefighters to board the tanker and stop the leakage of oil [REF].