FISHERMEN EMPTY CONTAINER FILLED WITH FUEL OIL AT SAN VICENTE DE LA BARQUERA BEACH IN THE...

Fishermen empty a container filled with fuel oil after collecting it at the San Vicente de la Barquera port, in the northern Spanish region of Cantabria, December 13, 2002, some 500 kms from where the first slicks washed ashore in the northwestern province of Galicia. Smit International, the Dutch shipping and salvage firm that helped raise Russia's Kursk submarine, said on Wednesday it wants to propose a plan to salvage oil from the wreck of the tanker Prestige. Slicks of toxic fuel oil from the Prestige - which spilt off the northwestern Spanish coast on November 13, then snapped in two and sank six days later - have devastated the region and what is left in the ship's hold remains an environmental hazard. REUTERS/Victor Fraile SP