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Prestige tanker ship sinking in the Atlantic ocean.
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BY REPORTER: ANDREAS MOUTSOURIS On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, a furious ocean storm caught the tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain. Within a week, the Greek-owned ship had broken in half, sending its cargo of 70,000 metric tons of fuel oil to the briny deep, but not before, enough mud had washed ashore to seriously threaten sea birds and aquatic life. If its entire cargo washed ashore, environmentalists say it would be a worse disaster than the vaunted spill of the Exxon Valdez in 1989, off the coast of Alaska, when 38,800 tons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound. The Prestige carried fuel oil, which actually is more dangerous to the environment than unrefined crude. It is heavier, more toxic and more difficult to clean up than crude. An early estimate of the cost of the clean-up of the lobster-rich waters is $65 million. It could take six...
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