Spain Tanker Risks Four-year Leak

World | December 11, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

The sunken tanker Prestige may continue to send oil oozing into the Atlantic until 2006, Spanish experts have revealed. The heavy fuel oil on board the wrecked vessel is currently leaking from 15 cracks in the hull at the rate of up to 125 metric tons a day. The revelation of a prolonged, slow loss of the 60,000 tons on board confirms the worst fears of the Spanish Government, which had hoped that the cold temperatures and high pressure would solidify the oil.

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