Timeline to disaster

Eight days after leaving Riga, Latvia, bound for Singapore with a cargo of nearly 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, Prestige hit trouble off Cape Finisterre in heavy seas. Six days later the ship was on the sea bed, having been refused a port of refuge and defying all the ...

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