Dead Dolphin Covered With Fuel Oil is Taken Away by Enviroment Workers on Nemina Beach, North Western Spain
Date: 03-Dec-02
Country: SPAIN
Author: JR/CMC
Photo: MIGUEL VIDAL
The 26-year-old Bahamas-flagged vessel Prestige took some 70,000 tons of fuel oil to the bottom of the Atlantic when it finally broke up on November 19.
The thick oil has washed up on beaches and rocks over a 400 kilometre stretch of the Galician coast, coating seabirds and endangering shellfish stocks vital to the local economy.
Spain's western beaches are know as the "Coast of Death" because of its long history of shipwrecks.
