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Spain Oil Spill
Spain-St.Marigna- birds covered in fuel oil , northwestern Spain,Greek tanker oil broke in two off the northwest coast of Spain on Tuesday, salvagers said, threatening an environmental disaster. It was caught in the oil spill after an estimated 3,000 metric tons of fuel oil were washed up on the beach from the stricken Bahamas-flagged Prestige, carrying some 77,000 metric tons (85,000 short tons) of fuel oil when it sprung a leak Wednesday Nov 13, 2002 some 50 kilometers (31 miles) offshore. .
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