Prestige oil spill failed to teach us a lesson

THE more that is revealed about the Prestige and its devastating oil spill off the Spanish coast, the more shameful it all becomes.

Not only was the impending disaster handled wrong from the start apparently, but mistakes continue to be made in relation to other dangerous vessels.

And the mistakes of the past, such as the Ericka that ran aground on December 12, 1999, off Brittany, have not led to lessons being learned.