プレステージのタンカーの船長、アポスト=マンゴラスAPOSTOLOS Mangourasは、石油輸送船を港湾内に避難させて石油を取り除く作業をしていれば、海岸石油汚染は防げたと主張
Mangouras defiende que el ‘Prestige’ pudo ser vaciado en un puerto de refugio
Los abogados del Estado evidencian ante el tribunal contradicciones del capitán
La catástrofe del 'Prestige'
¿Corrosión u oxidación?
Paola Obelleiro A Coruña 15 NOV 2012 - 21:46 CET
Mangouras argues that the 'Prestige' could be emptied into a port of refuge
State attorneys contradictions evident in court captain
The catastrophe of the 'Prestige'
Corrosion or rust??
Paola Obelleiro Coruna 15 NOV 2012 - 21:46 CET
The trial of the Prestige have intensified Thursday with the face-off between the tanker's captain, Apostolos Mangouras, and the lawyers of the Spanish state, which is in the process lead plaintiff accused while also sitting on the bench the former director of Merchant Marine Jose Luis Lopez-Sors. And it has fully entered the great questions of this catastrophe and the decisions that were taken with the old ship loaded with 77,000 tonnes of fuel after an accident while sailing against Fisterra, a decade ago, in the midst of a strong temporary. Could one or not carrying a port or place of refuge for the stricken boat which was trying to transfer its cargo? Or was it more reasonable decision maritime authorities, under the orders of the then Minister Francisco Alvarez-Cascos, everything possible to distance to sea, a ship that lost thousands of tonnes of oil and threatened to run aground on the coast da Morte?
Mangouras has argued that the November 15, two days after the accident and made firm the trailer that took 22 hours to get, there were all conditions and requirements necessary for the Prestige to a cove or harbor of refuge, as could be the estuary of Corcubión (A Coruña), and proceed there with a smaller boat, to empty it of fuel.
But state lawyers, asking 13 years in prison for disobedience and resistance captain addition of a crime against the environment, have also managed to highlight contradictions in the story of the old Greek sailor. Like, for example, why Mangouras argued that it was impossible to avoid the tragedy disrupting oil ancient crossing, passing in the corridor of Finisterre, to anchor in a sheltered area, as the estuary of Ares (A Coruña), when they reached the severe storm warnings, that November 13, 2002. Counsel for the State pointed out that many large vessels that make use of alternative when the sea gets impossible to navigate.
But Apostolos Mangouras has argued that "the size of the Prestige did not allow that solution." I could only minimize the speed to deal announcement, wind force 9. However, for the captain, the size of the tanker and posed no problem, after the accident, to be towed to an area or place of refuge and empty of fuel. According Mangouras, did not prevent the transfer operation or the oil major's draft of 16 meters after filled with over 10,000 tons of water to correct and straighten his strong heel, or the time (which has improved), or the depth of the Galician estuary.
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E insisted the Greek sailor in "printing" of the Spanish State "played with the lives" of the eight people on board when it decided, once managed to sign the trailer within 48 hours of the incident, imposing "a course of risk ", to" the ocean "unearmarked and notice of the arrival of a new heavy storm. A legal questions defending state López-Sors, Mangouras has admitted that the most reasonable, once achieved the difficult operation of attaching the trailer to the Prestige, was indeed, as we did, away from the coast the old oil. Adrift, that morning was just four miles from Muxía. "It was what we expected to do the Spanish authorities: away from the coast to take it to a shelter zone". But the captain has influenced criticize "fear and insecurity" that occurred aboard the contrary decision of Spain to bring deep "very hurt when a boat came another heavy storm." "Where were we? We were told that the ship had to leave, but did not tell us where he did not know its direction or destination. " "Do you think the Spanish government acted with contempt or disregard for human life", has asked the state attorney. "I can not accuse him of having underestimated the lives of eight people on board, but their actions have given me that impression," has ruled Mangouras.
Corrosion or rust??
Prestige captain insists again and again in his lengthy interrogation that he never wanted to deny, hinder or delay the arduous work to engage the oil, after the accident, tugs. "I always said that while I continue to live aboard and the ship encallaría not on the coast," he Mangouras riveting.
But it has been very sharp this Thursday the State Attorney in trying to emphasize, with tests and questions, contradictions veteran captain. Accuses him of lying, from the outset, the maritime authorities about the actual damage after suffering a stroke oil offshore and minimize the extent of the fuel spill. And he has tried to show that the experienced sailor himself was aware of the sorry state of the boat before embarking on his last voyage.
There are translation problems at trial. And on Thursday have become a highlight with many questions about the "corrosion" the captain said he saw months before the Prestige catastrophe tanks. "It was a visual but I can not say what degree of corrosion was the tank, do not think that is damaged or destroyed. Not considered a problem we call the red corrosion, oxidation, when we see it in a tank, "said the captain, as translated from the Greek.
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