November 19, 2002: The Prestige sinks. The ship was registered in the Bahamas but under Liberian ownership. The 797 foot long, single-hulled craft was built by Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. and completed in 1976. The ship was hauling 77,000 metric tons of cargo. There were two different grades of heavy fuel oil aboard. One of the twelve tanks burst during a storm off Galicia, Spain. The Greek operated ship was in peril and the captain called for help from Spanish rescue workers. Rather than help, the captain was told he had to steer his ship away from the coast and head in a northwest direction.
Galicia is in the northwestern corner of Spain, north of Portugal. Sending the ship northwest, meant the ship would enter the Bay of Biscay and head toward France. The French government then forced the ship to head southward and into Portuguese waters. Portugal no more…
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The cap says he’s superstitious about reading about sinking ships when he’s out to sea, understandable! so he’ll have a few posts to read when he’s safely on terra firma! But I enjoy them all.
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In our modern age sailors do not like to admit that we are superstitious … but we are. Somethings never change.
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That, for some reason, amazes me. Huge boat – we are so at nature’s whim.
Scott
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