A storm on Sunday, 11 November, broke a small Russian oil tanker, the Volgoneft-139, in half spilling at least 1,300 tonnes of fuel oil in the Kerch strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The same storm sank at least four freighters, three carrying sulphur and one with a cargo of scrap metal. On the shore near port Kavkaz, the environmental consequences of the heavy oil spill are disastrous. On Friday, November 16, 2007 at 3:52 UTC TerraSAR-X data of the disaster was acquired in StripMap-mode. The scene covers about 30x100 km in both polarizations (VV and HH).

		ZKI satellite image map: Oil spill in the Kerch Strait November 21, 2007 - 12:13 UTC The map of ZKI shows the extent of the oil spill in the Kerch Strait on November 16, 2007 at a scale of 1:75,000. The TerraSAR-X image used in the map has a resolution of 3m (Stripmap Mode).  More ...