On 12 April 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) program Foreign Correspondent screened a report on Chuuk Lagoon likening the effect of the impending massive release of tens of thousands of tonnes of oil from the rusting Japanese warships into the coral reef to that of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.
O 12 de abril de 2011, un programa da Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) proxectou un informe sobre a lagoa de Chuuk comparando o efecto da inminente liberación masiva de decenas de miles de toneladas de combustible pola oxidación dos depósitos dos buques de guerra xaponeses no arrecife de coral co do derrame do Exxon Valdez en Alaska.