Twenty-nine years ago today, on December 29, 1996 (November 19, 1996 lunar calendar), the Russian tanker Nakhodka broke and polluted the coast of Japan. On December 29, 1996, the Russian tanker "Nakhodka" (displacement 13,157 tons), loaded with 19,000 tons of heavy oil, lifted anchor from Shanghai Port in China and headed for Russia's Far East port. At about 3 am on January 2, 1997, the Eighth District of the Japanese Coast Guard in Maihe City received an emergency call: the ship crashed in the sea about 130 kilometers northeast of Oki Island in the Sea of Japan. After dawn, six helicopters of the Coast Guard flew to the accident site. I saw that the 180-meter-long Russian tanker had broken 50 meters from the bow, and only the bow was still floating on the sea. The hull of the ship has sunk more than 2,000 meters to the bottom of the sea. They rescued 31 crew members, only the captain is missing. On the same day, patrol planes found a black "oil belt" about 3 kilometers wide and 60 kilometers long leaking from the damaged oil tanker floating on the sea surface, and drifting along the northwest wind and "Tsushima tide" to the coast of Japan. It is estimated that the oil slick is about 4,000 tons. Japanese authorities tried to stop the oil slick from landing. They took various measures. But due to the bad climate, almost all measures were difficult to work. They sprinkled treatment agents on the oil slick, with the aim of decomposing the oil slick, and finally marine microorganisms turned the oil slick into harmless substances. But the wind speed of 22 meters per second in the sea of Japan for several days made the plane unable to operate at all. And according to experts, since the oil slick this time is not ordinary crude oil, but heavy oil with extremely high viscosity, it is difficult to achieve the desired effect even if the treatment agent is sprinkled. People tried to set up an "oil barrier" again, but the 7-meter-high wave made the floating oil barrier useless. People could only watch as the black oil slick drifted towards the coast, causing one of Japan's worst marine pollution incidents. The oil tanker "Nakhodka" is an old ship built 22 years ago. Experts estimate that the hull of the ship was broken due to aging. There are 22 oil storage tanks on board. The stern part of the ship sank to the bottom of the sea due to the rupture of the oil storage tank and the leakage of heavy oil. However, the bow part of the "Nakhodka" carrying the rest of the heavy oil was still drifting at sea. On the 7th, the most worrying thing finally happened. The bow part drifted to the coast with the waves and hit a reef in the sea of Dongxunfang, a famous tourist resort in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Heavy oil flowed out of the damaged oil tank, making the pollution worse. By the 8th, 300 kilometers of coast in six prefectures in Japan had been polluted by oil slick. And the oil slick was likely to float across the Noto Peninsula. After all methods were exhausted, only "human sea tactics" were left. In order to reduce the disaster, from the 8th, the fishing association along the coast of the polluted area organized fishermen to come to the beach with buckets and scoops to manually remove heavy oil. This area is a famous tourist area along the coast of the Sea of Japan. There is one of the "three scenic spots of Japan", one of the "three scenic spots of Japan", "Narusa Beach" is regarded as a natural wonder, and the legendary Maizuru Port... It attracts countless tourists all year round. This area is also an important origin of seafood. Nori, shrimp, deep-water crabs, abalone, conch, etc. are all famous products here. Now standing on the coast of this area, I can smell a pungent smell of oil and see black oil lapping on the shore. A few snow-white waterfowl drilled out of the water and turned into black birds. Now is the season for harvesting nori and crabbing here. A fisherman picked up nori from a shallow rock and stained it with oil. At this time of year, the fishing association here presents deep-water crabs to the emperor. In 1997, they said it was difficult to give away. Not only seasonal seafood will be affected, but also abalone harvested in summer will be affected. Preliminary estimates suggest that the pollution will cause a combined loss of fishing and tourism revenue of more than 10 billion yen.