Article: Report: Prestige captain criticizes Spanish authorities for refusal to dock leaking ship

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Dateline: MADRID, Spain The captain of the oil tanker that sank and caused a massive oil spill in northwestern Spain criticized Spanish authorities refusing to allow the ship to dock once it began leaking, a local newspaper reported Saturday.

"The Spanish authorities sent it (the tanker) further out to sea, and there, the hole got a lot bigger," Apostolos Mangouras, captain of the ship Prestige, was quoted as saying in the regional daily La Voz de Galicia.

"It was a mistake to order the ship out to sea, it should have been taken to a quiet place where the cargo could have been offloaded," he said.

Mangouras, a Greek citizen, made the comments ...

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