Aegean Sea (oil spill)

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On December 13th, 1992, the double bottom Greek-flag tanker, Aegean Sea, en-route to Repsol refinery in A Coruña, Spain suffered an accident off the galician coast. It had successfully passed all required tests and revisions.

When the ship was going to enter the docks of A Coruña, the windspeed was above 100 km/h, and visibility was under 100 m. This made it lose its assigned route and wreck. The ship broke off and exploded under the Tower of Hercules, causing 50 m. tall flames and spilling more than 70.000 tons of oil into the ocean.

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