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Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters, satellite imagery and video verified by Reuters show, as tit-for-tat attacks on oil tankers and other vessels by Iran and the United States spark concerns about environmental damage to the Gulf. John Amos, CEO of SkyTruth, which uses satellite imagery to detect oil spills, says it's 'much larger than anything seen previously.' - REUTERS
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00:07It's clearly affecting a stretch of coast in Iran.
00:12You can see dark brown oil right along the shoreline, spanning an area about four miles long.
00:22But the oil slick itself, you know, it's not only silvery patches, but there's pale blue and dark brown patches
00:33that indicate much thicker oil, possibly centimeters thick patches of oil floating on the water.
00:45And that suggests that really a large volume of oil has been spilled, and by large, I would imagine, again,
00:54hundreds of thousands of gallons.
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