French Atlantic Maritime Prefect JeanLouis Lozier speaks as commander of the 'VN Partisan' ship Herve Bouche French Ecological and Inclusive...
{"Image ImageDescription": "French Atlantic Maritime Prefect Jean-Louis Lozier (C) speaks as commander of the \"VN Partisan\" ship Herve Bouche (2nd L), French Ecological and Inclusive Transition Minister Francois de Rugy (3rd L), French La Republique en Marche (LREM) party Member of Parliament for the third constituency of the Finistere department Didier Le Gac (4th L) and Finistere sub-prefect Ivan Bouchier (R) listen  in Brest, western France, on March 14, 2019, during a visit to the \"VN Partisan\" vessel fitted with anti-pollution gear ahead of its departure for the zone where the Italian cargo ship Grande America burned and sank off the western French coast. - French authorities are bracing for the arrival of an oil slick that is creeping toward its southwest coast and should make landfall on March 17 or 20. The 10-kilometre (six-mile) by one-kilometre oil sheet was first spotted by a French naval aircraft in the after noon of March 14 afternoon, after a fire aboard an Italian cargo ship that sank on March 12 300 kms west of the town of La Rochelle. (Photo by Fred TANNEAU / AFP)        (Photo credit should read FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images)"}