The <i>Prestige</I> Oil Spill 11/20/2002

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LAVANDEIRA/EFE/AP		The Prestige Oil Spill An environmental catastrophe occurs as a tanker sinks off the coast of Spain Spanish sailors help shovel sludge off an oil-stained beach. Environmentalists are hoping the tanker's remaining cargo — nearly twice the 10.92 million gallons dumped from the Exxon Valdez in 1989 — would solidify inside the submerged vessel in frigid waters more than two miles deep

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