スペインのガルシア沖でのプレステージ石油輸送船沈没による海岸石油環境汚染。港湾管理者の石油輸送船の入港拒否。石油漏洩原因の証言の矛盾。Prestige
‘Prestige’, enigmas sin resolver
Las contradicciones entre las partes y las propias autoridades españolas, junto a la revelación de hechos desconocidos, marcan el juicio en A Coruña
Paola Obelleiro A Coruña 22 DIC 2012 - 19:58 CET
Prestige', unsolved riddles
The contradictions between the parties and the Spanish authorities, along with the revelation of unknown facts, make the judgment in A Coruña
Paola Obelleiro Coruna 22 DIC 2012 - 19:58 CET
Sitting on the bench, the former director of the Merchant Marine Jose Luis Lopez-Sors taking notes in a large format book happen while the statements of the first witnesses of the disaster, a decade ago, the Prestige. Sometimes a phrase emphasizes a fluorescent green marker. Beside, attentive listening the two main accused, the tanker's captain, Apostolos Mangouras, and the chief engineer, Nikolaos Argyropoulos. Occasionally, older Greek sailors outlines a small smile. The much delayed trial progresses, lengthen interrogations. And surprising facts emerge, unpublished revelations, unknown documents and many, many contradictions.
"Fateless. Nobody clarifies what was once the accident occurred on 13 November 2002. The contradictions multiply on this point. By boat "mortally wounded" as the maritime authorities, and was not allowed to leave or stay in Spanish waters. France and Portugal also intervened to block his path. A coastal State has every right "to deny a port of refuge" to a ship in distress, claimed Lopez-Sors. And impose that sent "as far as possible", 120 miles outside Spanish waters. But at the same time, the authorities of a country "can not let go of its waters a ship security deeply damaged by all of the ship, its crew, off the coast ...", claimed a subordinate of the CEO, the head of the National Rescue Centre, Pedro Sanchez. Mangouras criticized once upright and secured the trailer, Spain carry the boat "very hurt" offshore and with notice of a new and strong weather. "Where were we? No one knew the course, "he complained. A Smit Salvage, salvage company hired by the automaker to take over from the November 15, Spain denied permission to wear the coat in the water and try to recover their fuel load. Vigo first asked, by proximity and good weather, and then Gibraltar. The refusal in the case of Galician port "was loud and clear," said Lopez-Sors. "We welcome anywhere," complained the assembler to captain.
"A journey without food. The fate of the Prestige before the accident is not clear. Mangouras assures that was 72 hours without food or drink to disembark, be arrested and taken to a cell of the Guardia Civil. Serafin Diaz, a marine engineer by Prestige Development sent to the day after the incident, also complained of having been "hunger and thirst" board. "There was nothing in the kitchen, was dry," confirmed team boss Tecnosub company that came aboard with Diaz. "When I asked him something to the first officer, I was presented with a can of cola and four biscuits, there was nothing." The surprising absence of food in a tanker with 27 crew reopens suspicions about the real destination after being chartered by a Swiss company already dissolved, Crown Ressources to carry 77,000 tons of fuel from St. Petersburg to theoretically Singapore.
»Scrap floating? Credited Tecnosub technicians "evil malantenimiento" boat ". Their emergency towing was" unusable "tops tanks on deck jumped too easily." He was a good ship "claim, instead, the captain and Chief Engineer. had all the permissions to navigate. then captain maritime Coruna, Real Angel, also understands this, contrary to the official version: "It was a good boat, I never put any paste". The old oil, however, was years removed from the high seas. And the state of your tanks has been questioned. captain failed to be convincing in their efforts to minimize the "corrosion" that detected in a visual inspection before Crossing. But there is another argument that still failed to rebut the Spanish authorities: if it was just junk or even after his accident, he was so convicted, "mortally wounded," said Merchant, how could endure six days, covering 240 temporary amid miles before splitting and sinking?
"Crack and leak. It has been one of the most amazing statements: the pilot Helimer Galicia, one of the first to come to the rescue, he said, for the first time in 10 years that the tanker crew would have had already confessed that "four or five days" with a leak when it crashed. The pilot never told anyone. Nor in the hours before the incident was detected anomaly to pass some Ouessant in French Finisterre, Galicia last stop before. Neither leak or crack, however, must come from old, as marine engineer Alfredo de la Torre, López-Sors second Maritime Security. "That kind of crack is running, progresses over time." But then, argues the Liberian shipping, why was not detained in any port and had all the certificates?
"Not the right choice. Take the boat to port rugged Coruña was an alternative "ideal" admitted López-Sors. But, he argued, was "not helpful jeopardize" the city whose mayor, Francisco Vázquez, Development had warned that "under no circumstances" would enter the Prestige. López-Sors, surprisingly, not brandished the inability to get the tanker draft limitation. But his subordinates, the Maritime Safety and former Assistant Chief of the National Salvation, did recover that argument.
'Cause unknown. If it was a broken bulkhead dividing a fuel tank, as initially believed Mangouras, "fuel caps not spring for cover, as it happened, a 10 meters high," he says now the captain to justify his change of views on the causes of the accident. "The list would have been lower with a broken bulkhead," he said to refute the belief that the Spanish authorities was severe damage to the boat structure that led to the disaster. Rescuers of Tecnosub hired by Public Works, also collected evidence pointing to a ruptured bulkhead. Viewed through the cover plates inside fuel tanks had to be emptied, on the side opposite that was damaged. But its report, while important, was never made public, nor incorporated into the court record or taken into account by officials that decision makers. Mangouras speaks now, without much conviction, a "tidal wave". For technical Development is impossible.
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