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Keywords
Beaches
Boats
Coastlines
Day
Disasters
Fishers
Fishing (activity)
Fishing (Industry)
KWCI (GPI)
Marine pollution
MV Prestige
Oceans (campaign title)
Oceans (topography)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil spills
Outdoors
Toxics (campaign title)
Two people
Effects of Prestige Oil Spill in Galicia
Galician fishermen are retrieving their nets and tackle left behind before the oil spill and rough weather. The oil slick can be seen in the background on the beach of the Islands of Sisargas.
Unique identifier:
GP08YU
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
28/11/2002
Locations:
Galicia
,
Sisargas Island
,
Spain
,
Western Europe
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Pedro Armestre
Size:
1787px × 1187px 402KB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Prestige Sinking Oil Spill in Galicia
The Prestige oil spill off the coast of Galicia was caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing industry. The spill is the largest environmental disaster of both Spain's history and Portugal's history. The Prestige was a Greek-operated, single-hulled oil tanker, officially registered in the Bahamas, but with a Liberian-registered single-purpose corporation as the owner.
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