This RADARSAT-1 image acquired August 19th, 2006 shows oil spilled in the Bay of Bengal (India) after a Japanese tanker collided with a small Indian vessel 470 km west of the Nicobar and Andaman Archipelago. Over 4,500 tonnes of oil was spilled into the Indian Ocean.

RADARSAT-1 data © CSA 2006. Received by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. Processing and image interpretation by MDA Geospatial Services Inc.