Wanted: a Film Documentary that will expose the politics behind the Guimaras oil spill. Read this report (background on the Erika sinking) from the BBC.To watch the video, click here (report by Tom Mangold). Some excerpts:

“Italian businessman Giuseppe Savarese, having eventually been identified as the owner of the Erika, is now facing criminal charges in France and has a 1 million bail on this head.”

“RINA accepts some of the responsibility but also points the finger at the Malta authorities, where the ship was flagged.”

“Lino Vassallo of the Malta Maritime Authority passes the buck straight back. He insists that whatever went wrong wasn’t their fault.”

‘I was thinking, what kind of system is this?’ the Captain told Correspondent at his home port of Bombay, ‘What about the other players? For no fault of my own I am being put in prison! I am only operating the ship and I am the one was is jailed. I am not the one who owned the ship. What about the rest?’

To read the transcript of the background video, click here.