Cuban Ship Damages Reef Carrying Maya Train Ballast

A ship carrying ballast destined for the Maya Train project has damaged a coral reef in the Mexican Caribbean, claimed diver and underwater videographer Alberto Friscione.The tanker “Melody” was anchoring near Puerto Morelos, loaded with 20,000 tons of porphyrite stone from Cuba when the incident happened.“When [Melody] dropped the anchor, it fell on top of many [coral],” Friscione told EFE. “They pulled the whole chain for several meters and as the ship drifted, the chain moved and began to break the few or many corals that were there.