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Dispatches

Dispatches cools in the hold. “If left long enough, the oil will reach ambient temperature, about 2.5˚C, and then it Adrian Burton simply will not flow”, says César The Spanish Research Council Dopazo, Director-General of the (CSIC) is to spend €6 million study- Center for Research into Energy, ing the ecological impact of the the Environment and Technology Prestige disaster – potentially Eur- (CIEMAT). “But when the center of ope’s worst oil tanker tragedy. the oil mass is still warmer than the On November 13, 2002, the 26- edges, even though the outside is year-old, single-hulled Prestige began solid, the inside remains fluid. In to ship water off the Galician coast of contact with a breach in the hull, a Spain. As its 77 000-ton cargo of fuel little pressure can cause this ‘ball’ to oil began to leak out, the 243 m-long break, and the oil to flow out”. It may take 2 months for all the oil to solidify. The immediate ecological impact of the ongoing spill has been serious. The Galician coast is one of the richest inshore fishing grounds in Europe and home to the continent’s largest seafood industry – all this in an area http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Ecological Society of America

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Publisher
Ecological Society of America
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 by the Ecological Society of America
Subject
Dispatches
ISSN
1540-9295
eISSN
1540-9309
DOI
10.1890/1540-9295%282003%29001%5B0005:D%5D2.0.CO%3B2
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Abstract

cools in the hold. “If left long enough, the oil will reach ambient temperature, about 2.5˚C, and then it Adrian Burton simply will not flow”, says César The Spanish Research Council Dopazo, Director-General of the (CSIC) is to spend €6 million study- Center for Research into Energy, ing the ecological impact of the the Environment and Technology Prestige disaster – potentially Eur- (CIEMAT). “But when the center of ope’s worst oil tanker tragedy. the oil mass is still warmer than the On November 13, 2002, the 26- edges, even though the outside is year-old, single-hulled Prestige began solid, the inside remains fluid. In to ship water off the Galician coast of contact with a breach in the hull, a Spain. As its 77 000-ton cargo of fuel little pressure can cause this ‘ball’ to oil began to leak out, the 243 m-long break, and the oil to flow out”. It may take 2 months for all the oil to solidify. The immediate ecological impact of the ongoing spill has been serious. The Galician coast is one of the richest inshore fishing grounds in Europe and home to the continent’s largest seafood industry – all this in an area

Journal

Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentEcological Society of America

Published: Feb 1, 2003

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