The mysterious smell that blanketed Athens and its Attica is most likely attributed to a gas leak from a ship, according to data presented by Efthimios Lekkas.<\/p>\n
New data is coming to light about the mysterious smell<\/strong> that had covered Athens<\/strong> and especially the coastal front of Attica<\/strong>, causing concern among residents and scientists.<\/p>\n The president of the OASP<\/strong>, Ethymios Lekkas<\/strong>, revealed that the investigations carried out recently now lead to a prevailing scenario for the origin of the odour that was felt in mid-May in areas of the Lekanopedi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As he explained, when the phenomenon first appeared, various possible causes were examined, as there was insufficient evidence to draw any firm conclusions.<\/p>\n Among the scenarios under the microscope of the experts was the possibility of a release of gas<\/strong> from the seafloor<\/strong> due to natural processes or decomposition of organic matter, while the possibility of a leak from the natural gas<\/strong> network was ruled out early on.<\/p>\n The possible link between the odour and the submarine Pausanias<\/strong> volcano was also considered, but no volcanic activity<\/strong> was recorded to account for the phenomenon.<\/p>\n Scientists from the National Observatory of Athens<\/strong> and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research<\/strong> played a key role in the investigations. According to their findings, traces of butane<\/strong> and propane<\/strong> were detected in the atmosphere, while analysis of meteorological data and the course of the winds<\/strong> indicated the sea zone south of Salamis<\/strong> as a possible area of origin.<\/p>\n The investigations ruled out the possibility that the gases came from the subsea floor or from natural processes at sea.<\/p>\n Based on the evidence so far, the prevailing scenario is now a man-made cause<\/strong> and in particular a possible leakage of gases from a passing ship<\/strong> that was in the area.<\/p>\n As Mr. Lekkas<\/strong>, of the five main scenarios initially considered, most have been ruled out, with investigations increasingly converging on the ship leak version.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mysterious smell that covered Athens and the coastal front of Attica in May is most likely attributed to a gas leak from a ship, according to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Scenarios ruled out<\/h3>\n
Ship leakage the most prevalent scenario<\/h3>\n