Spanish braced for black tide

Spaniards along the north west Galicia coastline are today steeling themselves for the “black tide” they’ve dreaded since a fuel oil tanker broke apart and sank more than a week ago.

Spanish braced for black tide

Spaniards along the north west Galicia coastline are today steeling themselves for the “black tide” they’ve dreaded since a fuel oil tanker broke apart and sank more than a week ago.

“It’s a disaster. Just a disaster,” fisherman Jose Ramon Montero, 26, said at Cabo Finisterre (Cape Land’s End) lighthouse, staring at the Atlantic Ocean.

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