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Prestige oil spill - Wikipedia
The Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November, and French, Spanish, and Portuguese governments refused to allow the ship to dock.
Learn from the past: Prestige sinking, one of the worst oil spills …
2018年11月13日 · In 2002, the Greek-owned and Bahamas-operated tanker ‘Prestige’ encountered heavy weather during a routine voyage and eventually sank off the coast of Spain, causing the worst environmental disaster in the country and …
Prestige oil tanker, Spain's biggest environmental disaster: what ...
The November 19, 2002 occurred in Spain off the coast of Galicia, one of the most serious environmental disasters in Iberian history: that of the oil tanker MC Prestige launched in 1975 and owned by the Mare Shipping company.
Spain's biggest environmental disaster: The Prestige oil spill 20 …
2022年11月14日 · Never before had 63,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil flushed the coasts of the north of the Iberian country -- ending up creating 2,000 kilometres of a polluted area stretching from Portugal to...
Prestige oil tanker disaster crew acquitted in Spain - BBC
2013年11月13日 · The oil tanker Prestige sank off northern Spain in 2002, splitting up after being kept out at sea for six days following its first call for help. It spilled 50,000 tonnes of oil, polluting...
The Prestige sank after splitting in two in Portuguese waters. It is still carrying between 60,000 and 70,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. The oil is still contained within compartments in the holds of the ship. In the area where the tanker sank the water is over 3,000 metres deep.
Prestige - Cedre
On Wednesday 13 November 2002, the single-hulled oil tanker Prestige, flying the Bahamas flag, sent a distress call offshore in the region of Cape finisterre (Galicia, Spain). The tanker, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil loaded in St Petersburg (Russia) and Ventspils (Latvia), was heading to Singapore via Gibraltar.
In ecological and socio-economic terms, the Prestige oil slick must be considered one of the most damaging in the history of maritime transport, and one of the most complex. Many authors rate it the worst since the Exxon Valdez disaster that hit Alaska in 1989.
The Prestige Oil Spill - Wiley Online Library
The accident on November 13, 2002 of the Prestige oil tanker, transporting 77,000 tons of a heavy fuel oil, 50 km off the Galicia coast (NW Spain), and its sinking 200 km offshore after an oil leakage for 6 days started a massive oil spill, affecting more than 800 km of the NW Spanish coast and even some areas of SW France, including the ...
The Prestige: one year on, a continuing disaster | WWF
London, UK - WWF warns in a critical new report that the Prestige oil spill crisis is not over, with both the marine environment and the fishing sector on the north-western coast of Spain still suffering from the disaster one year after the tanker sank.