The West Cork oil spill was an oil spill off the southern coast of Ireland. The spill was first identified by the European Maritime Safety Agency's CleanSeaNet satellite monitoring system on 14 February 2009. An Irish Air Corps marine patrol aircraft first spotted the slick around the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov which was undergoing refuelling around the same time. The Russian Navy have since accepted responsibility for the incident. The oil spill began heading eastwards and broke up. Whilst there were fears that the spill would wash up on the coast of south eastern Ireland or Wales this is no longer the case due to the spill breaking up.
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