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Final report offers no definitive answers to Prestige questions.
(From Lloyds List)
Byline: The Bahamas report will prove a big disappointment to those claiming endemic deficiencies in the maritime industry, writes Michael Grey
The sinking of the Prestige on November 19, 2002, six days after it had been damaged by a large wave as the ship was running south down the separation zone off Cape Finisterre, has become one of the melancholy milestones which have marked marine safety in recent years.
No human beings lost their lives in this casualty, but its nature, with 77,000 tonnes of heavy oil sunk with the ship, its timing, shortly after the similarly calamitous Erika sinking, and its location, off the ...
- Once more, a breach; The loss of Prestige.(The Spanish oil spill)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 23, 2002 700+ words
...Erika spilled oil off Brittany, the Prestige--a single-hulled tanker, of Bahamian...that there was more fuel on board the Prestige than on the Exxon Valdez, immediately...bickering between Spain and Portugal left the Prestige in rough seas far longer than necessary...
- Tankers--the sinking of the oil tanker Prestige on Nov. 19 off the Spanish...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly November 25, 2002 700+ words
TANKERS -- The sinking of the oil tanker Prestige on Nov. 19 off the Spanish coast looks likely to prompt the EU to rush through a ban on single-hulled tankers in European waters. Legislation was due next...
- Shipping Body Counterclaims.(American Bureau of Shipping files against Spanish...
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily July 3, 2003 700+ words
...at fault for the Prestige tanker wreck that left miles of Spanish beaches devastated...Last month, the Spanish government filed...not only has the Spanish government failed...the sinking of the Prestige, but also that Spain...
- Miami Herald's English-Spanish Mix Is Weighed as Demographics Change;Despite...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Morris S. Thompson October 25, 1987 700+ words
...quit and stormed onto a local Spanish-language radio station to...Herald, the newspaper's Spanish-language version, whose...reaches here, even as its prestige has risen. The decline is...number of relatively affluent Spanish-speaking residents, mostly...
- Tanker Crew Rescued Off Spain.(Bahamas-flagged fuel oil tanker...
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily November 14, 2002 700+ words
...Tanker Crew Rescued Off Spain Spanish authorities said Wednesday they...winds. The Bahamas-flagged "Prestige" radioed Spanish rescue services to report it...of oil around the tanker, the Spanish government said in a statement...
- Tanker owners prepare for post-Prestige kneejerks. (Update).
- Magazine article from: Marine Log December 1, 2002 700+ words
...month's casualty involving the loss of the tanker Prestige off the Spanish coast. Despite the best efforts of salvors Smit International...close to Member States' coasts. Even before the Prestige accident, the Commission had decided to make a proposal...
- In the wake of the prestige. (Marine Campaign).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Habitat Australia February 1, 2003 700+ words
When the ageing single-hulled oil tanker Prestige broke up off the Spanish coast recently, over 20,000 tonnes of heavy crude oil spewed into the ocean, killing wildlife, fouling beaches and destroying...
- An accident at sea creates much froth; The politics of an oil spill.(The...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 23, 2002 700+ words
...should be towed into a Spanish port. Spain's authorities...shoreward anyway. So, at Spanish insistence, the Prestige was eventually towed...admirers. The first Spanish line was that the 26-year-old Prestige should have been properly...