June 5  -- SINGAPORE - About 100 tons of fuel oil leaked from a bunker fuel barge  after it            collided with the freighter Sun Pulse. The fuel oil had begun  washing            up on the island's east coast.

July  11 -- AUSTRALIA - An ore carrier, the Iron Baron, ran aground on a reef in  southern            Australian waters, spilling more than 500 tons of fuel oil and  causing            a major pollution scare for the island state of Tasmania.  Thousands            of fairy penguins were fouled with oil.

July  25 -- SOUTH            KOREA - Oil leaking from the 275,782 deadweight ton Sea  Prince,            a burning tanker off South Korea, formed a slick 20 miles (32  km) in            diameter. The ship was loaded with 83,000 tons of crude oil.  It was            drifting toward the country's best known sea resort. 700 tons  of fuel            oil estimated to have been leaked.