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A crew begins the long task of cleaning up the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez from the beaches on Naked Island by scrubbing each rock. REUTERS/Mike Blake.
A volunteer cleans up oil stained rocks along the devastated oil stained northwest coast of Spain near Camarinas January 15, 2003. REUTERS/ Miguel Vidal.
On his hands and knees, a member of the clean up crew scrubs the oil soaked rocks on Naked Island in the Prince William Sound, April 2 1989, as beach clean up efforts in the worst spill in U.S. history begin. REUTERES/Mike Blake.
Crews clean up the oil soaked beach on Naked Island in the Prince William Sound, on April 2, 1989, after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, cased by the Exxon Valdez. REUTERS/Mike Blake.
Sea Lions rest on a rock in the oily waters of Prince William Sound near Knight Island, April 2 1989. The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez now covers over 1,000 square miles. REUTERS/Mike Blake.
Coloured barriers are set up to try and stop fuel oil from the sunken Prestige tanker from washing ashore on the Sardinero beach in Santander, one of Spain's most elegant resorts, stretch out across the beach. A walk along the beach in Santander leaves your feet black with tar, a hangover from the ecological disaster of the sunken tanker now lying on the sea bed several hundred kilometres out to sea. Picture taken August 1, 2003. REUTERS/Victor Fraile.
A bird stained with fuel oil sits on the shore near Russia's southern port of Kavkaz, November 12, 2007. Russian authorities launched a major rescue operation at the northern mouth of the Black Sea on Monday to save missing seamen and contain environmental damage after a storm sank at least four ships and split open a small oil tanker. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin.
Workers clean fuel oil off the rocks on 'Maruca' beach in the Spanish northern region of Cantabria on November 19, 2003. The stricken Bahamas registered tanker 'Prestige', loaded with 77,000 tonnes of fuel oil, ran into trouble November 13, 2002 spilling tonnes of oil into the sea and finally sunk off northwestern Spain a year ago polluting hundreds of kilometres of Spain's northern coastline. REUTERS/Victor Fraile.
A surfer walks over fuel stained rocks on a beach in the Spanish northern region of Cantabria November 13, 2003. The stricken Bahamas registered tanker Prestige, loaded with 77,000 tonnes of fuel oil, ran into trouble November 13, 2002 spilling tonnes of oil into the sea and finally sunk off northwestern Spain November 19, 2002 polluting hundreds of kilometres of Spain's northern coastline. REUTERS/Victor Fraile.
Volunteers clean up fuel oil from on the stained rocks of Spain's northwestern cape Tourinan April 18, 2003. The Prestige, a Bahamanian-registered single-hull tanker, broke in two and sank some 270 kilometers (165 miles) off Spain last November 19, touching off the worst pollution ever on Spanish beaches. About 2000 volunteers arrived during their Easter holidays to help clean up the oil spill. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal.
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