I'd be surprised. Doing quick napkin math, there were very roughly 4.710^30 particles of vinyl chloride released. Google says there are 4.610^46 molecules of water in the ocean (I can't vouch for that). So the concentration would be something like 0.0000000001 ppm.
And that's only counting the ocean, not air or freshwater or dirt.
I don't know if that's in the realm of detectable, but I think it's certainly not significant.
The local effects could be bad, but I don't think there will be any kind of global effects.
And that's only counting the ocean, not air or freshwater or dirt.
I don't know if that's in the realm of detectable, but I think it's certainly not significant.
The local effects could be bad, but I don't think there will be any kind of global effects.