A PLAN to salvage the cargo of crude oil from the sunken tanker Prestige is being considered by the European Commission. As Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, Smit International, a Rotterdam-based salvage company, was set to tell the Commission that it will cost between €20 and €30 million to recover the 60,000 tonnes of oil that remain on the wreck.
The Prestige, which split in two and sank on 19 November, is lying 3.5 kilometres down on the floor of the Atlantic, some 200 kilometres off the north-west coast of Spain. Oil has never been recovered from a depth…
