At the congressional hearings in March, he told the Senate committee there were more than a dozen incidents of passenger ships sinking and 99 ships running aground between 1973 and 2011.

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Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of Russia's environmental regulator and a member of the United Nations' International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, said the sinking of the ships in the Kerch Strait was a serious disaster and that it would take 10 to 15 years to clean up the strait and its coastline.

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