A chemical cloud that appeared over the coast of Sussex in the UK on Sunday, and which forced 150 people to seek medical treatment, could have come from a ship in the Channel. the Environment Agency, in conjunction with The Maritime and Coastguard Agency, is attempting to identify the source of the cloud which led to the evacuation of Birling Gap beach. Two pollution monitoring sites on the coast identified a quadrupling of ozone levels in a half-hour period on Sunday afternoon, increasing speculation that the toxic plume emerged from a vessel.
A chemical cloud that appeared over the coast of Sussex in the UK on Sunday, and which forced 150 people to seek medical treatment, could have come from a ship in the Channel. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency, in conjunction with the Environment Agency, is attempting to identify the source of the cloud which led to the evacuation of Birling Gap beach. Two pollution monitoring sites on the coast identified a quadrupling of ozone levels in a half-hour period on Sunday afternoon, increasing speculation that the toxic plume emerged from a vessel.