Timeline Tuesday 19 November 2002

Events on Tuesday 19 November 2002 1

• 2002 Prestige oil spill Tanker breaks up off the Spanish coast The single-hulled tanker Prestige, carrying about 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, began leaking in a storm off Galicia and was refused refuge by several governments before breaking apart and sinking on 19 November 2002. The spill fouled thousands of kilometres of coastline in Spain, France and Portugal and devastated the Galician fishing industry. It prompted the European Union to accelerate a ban on single-hulled tankers.