The two presidential candidates competing to succeed the ousted President Alberto K. Fujimori have begun a gentle assault on the traditional third force in Peruvian politics -- the bloated and politically powerful armed forces -- as the military has sunk in prestige after an array of scandals.
Potential geological hazards resulting from tectonic and sedimentary processes affect almost the entire Prestige sinking area.
The Prestige sinking area corresponds to an asymmetric half-graben structure with a N S trend, which conditions the present-day morphology.
The tanker Prestige sank off NW Iberia on the 19th November 2002.
Sticky toes are a trivial problem compared with the damage done since the Prestige sank on Nov. 19.
The leaking oil tanker Prestige sinks off Spain's north-western coast, taking more than 70,000 tonnes of fuel into the Atlantic with it.
Two months after the tanker Prestige sank 133 miles off the Spanish coast, more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians continue the backbreaking task of scraping gluey fuel oil from sand and rocks stained by "black tides".
In November 2002, an oil tanker, the Prestige, sank off the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in the country's history.
She also filed reports from Iraq on the war, and from Galicia in northern Spain following the ecological disaster when the oil tanker Prestige sank.
Oil spill on the Galician Costa de la Muerte near Camelle, Spain, after the tanker Prestige sank in 2002, causing more than 70,000 tonnes of oil to be released into the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2004, two years after the oil tanker Prestige sank off the coast of Spain, for example, remotely operated underwater vehicles managed to recover 3.5 million gallons of oil trapped in the ships hull.
