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Article: Residents of La Coruna
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2002
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Residents of La Coruna, Spain, wait for the coming oil slicks
Seaside aquarium threatened by spills from sunken tanker
By EMMA DALY New York Times
Sunday, November 24, 2002
La Coruna, Spain -- The seals were the first to sense something
wrong, abandoning their contaminated seawater pool for dry land. Now
the people who run La Coruna's enchanting aquarium dread the coming
of a noxious black tide that has devastated marine life along more
than 250 miles of Spain's Atlantic coast.
The aquarium, one of only three in Europe that fill their tanks
with seawater, sits where the Aegean Sea, a tanker carrying 80,000
tons of fuel, ran aground and caught fire 10 years ago, causing what
was until now the ...