Authorities said the spill currently stretches more than three miles out at sea.
A ferry that ran aground off southeastern Sweden and leaked oil into the Baltic Sea has been pulled free Wednesday and anchored nearby, the Swedish coastguard said, adding that a new oil leak has been discovered.
Coastguard personnel work on the clean-up after an oil leak from the grounded ferry Marco Polo on the coast of Horvik, southern Sweden On Sunday, it slipped off the ground because of severe weather, drifted further out, got stuck for a third time and leaked more oil. Swedish prosecutors have handed down fines to the captain and an officer who was in charge at the time of the grounding, saying they acted recklessly by relying on a faulty GPS.
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