巨大な波が石油輸送船プレステージ号を破壊しスペインのガルシア沖で沈没させた
La ‘ola asesina’ que rompió el ‘Prestige’
Los abogados del capitán y del armador del petrolero afianzan en el juicio de la catástrofe la teoría de que una ola gigante causó el siniestro
Paola Obelleiro A Coruña 14 ABR 2013 - 00:01 CET
The 'killer wave' that broke the 'Prestige'
Lawyers for the master and the owner of the oil secured in the trial of catastrophe theory that a giant wave caused the accident
Paola Obelleiro A Coruña 14 ABR 2013 - 00:01 CET
A giant , extreme wave . Or in the English version also called abnormal ( freak or rogue wave) , or even murderous monster . There are multiple official descriptions of the well-studied " extraordinary phenomenon " , in the words of the captain of the Prestige , Apostolos Mangouras , could result in more than a decade tanker accident while sailing on the high seas from Galicia. The theory of the giant wave , a maritime legend for centuries now and is considered scientifically - proven research to document follow - comes and goes during the long trial sessions of the catastrophe , now tuck your fifth month in the Provincial Court La Coruna.
At stake is who will pay the bill for the disaster , estimated at 4,200 million
It was Mangouras , main accused, the first conjure up when starting the hearing last November that there was no possibility mented in ten years of painstaking research on the cause, the greatest ever environmental crime by educated in Spain . His lawyer, José María Ruiz Soroa , and the owner of the old ship spare no means to try to prove in court the probability of a hypothesis , however , the Office and the State Bar strive to subtract any credibility or congruence. Even resort to comments bordering on derision when the theory of spontaneous wave a giant that can reach 12 to 15 feet high appointment. Hardly probable it is for many of the experts who paraded in court as expert witnesses .
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Spain , which is charged to the applicant and time in this process through the former Director General of Merchant Marine Jose Luis Lopez - Sors , wants to avoid at all costs a sentence that points to a natural cause , relatively common at sea, the origin of maritime casualties that resulted in catastrophe , staining 1,600 miles of fuel Galician coast , Cantabrian and the French . The whole strategy of the prosecutor and state attorneys focuses on all the blame on the business network for the Prestige tanker charter a monohull 26 years old , who came to be called " floating junk " , to transport 77,000 tons of fuel very polluting. At stake is who you pay the bill for the disaster , estimated by the prosecution in more than 4,200 million euros.
The state wants to avoid a sentence that points to a natural cause
Giant waves have nothing to do with a tsunami or tidal wave , caused by these earthquakes. Also called stray waves are like those lonely elephants away from the pack to become dangerous . They ceased to be a legend , which was attributed by several centuries the disappearance or sinking dozens of ships since 1995 , when he scored in the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea, rigorous scientific measurement of those spontaneous ocean waves of gigantic proportions. A year after the Prestige , the European Space Agency even got one of the few images that exist on this phenomenon.
No one disputes that this November 13, 2002 a temporary tremendous raging in the Galician coast. The sea was angry when , after hearing a loud roar that almost immediately heeled old tanker captain sent a distress call . " The boat had become a sea ," said Mangouras at trial. Although without much conviction , the old Greek sailor cited as possible causes of the coup a container, a log, or even a submarine " unusual size waves ." He was the first officer, but also accused missing , who spoke of a " tidal wave ," he said . More descriptive was the boss also accused of machines, Nikolaos Argyropoulos : " Take to the seas and had never seen anything like it ." He said nothing to sit on the dock , ten years later, to be in " shock " after the incident.
" Take to the seas and never seen anything like it ," said the chief engineer
"These are extraordinary phenomena , more common than previously thought ," he said in court, a lawyer Mangouras proposal , one of the largest oceanographic experts in the field , the American Alfred Osborne. Estimated that hypothetical killer wave that hit the Prestige could reach 16 meters high. Between 12 and 14 meters, according to data out of the mouth of Silleiro , as corroborated in another trial specialist, Nigel Barltrop .
The sea, that day , had " very stilted " , ie , high-angle waves . And supposedly caused a hole in the hull of the Prestige was " brutal ," said the naval engineer. "It was as if receiving the impact of 36 trucks of 40 tons each ," described during the trial chart in hand. The height , according to his calculations , was equivalent to nine of these heavy vehicles stacked on top of another. Graphic testimony there , of course. Just a couple of pictures of giant waves were achieved in the half century of scientific investigations judicious launched across the world's seas to try to prove those killer waves that have engulfed the seamen blamed over 200 boats. Waves that are , according to experts, a theoretically less vulnerable transatlantic real threat to large tonnage , as the Prestige , heavy before the onslaught of the sea. More than a dozen ships were , according to official investigations, victims of these murderous ocean in this century . Some were swallowed up and disappeared without a trace.
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