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SPAIN: December 3, 2002
A dead dolphin covered with fuel oil is taken
away by environment workers from the beach
at Nemina in north-western Spain province of
Galicia December 1, 2002.
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 known as the "Coast of Death" because of its long history of shipwrecks.
Story by JR/CMC
Photo by MIGUEL VIDAL
Courtesy REUTERS NEWS PICTURE SERVICE
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