Article: Residents of La Coruna

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 ...

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