Rapid and effective counter measures are urgently required, and indeed have now been specified by international regulations, if the coastal seas are not to be transformed over the next few decades into oil-polluted and biologically dead waters.
Ngokukhawuleza isiphumo semilinganiselo ebalayo siyimfuneko engxamisekileyo ngenene sezibalulwe ngoku ngamazwe ommiselo ukuba amanxweme olwandle akazoguqulwa kwishumi leminyaka ukuya kungcoliseko lwe-oli yamanzi angahambiyo