This Day in History: 2002-11-13
(November 13, 2002)
A storm explodes a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank off the coast of Galicia on November 19, 2002, spilling 63,000 metric tonnes of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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