Plain English How a rusting oil tanker threatened the Red Sea | Learn expression 'accident waiting to happen'
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The FSO Safer is an oil storage vessel, meant to store oil waiting to be shipped to the market. But when rebels took over the coast of Yemen, they held the ship hostage. That was in 2015. In the years since, nobody performed required maintenance and the ship has deteriorated, risking a spill or an explosion.
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