The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 21, 2002, Image 8

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    THIRSTY THURSDAY
Mixed
Drinks
9-1 I
Jello Shots
ALL NIGHT
NO COVER FOR LADIES ALL NIGHT
LADIES DANCE PARTY...on the BARK
Student Health Services would like to thank everyone who helped with the
Athletics
Recreational Sports
GflflWI!
flu and meningitis shot campaign.
Memorial Student Center
Residence Life
Corps of Cadets
VP of Student Affairs
We appreciate all of your hard work and support. 2,408 flu shots and 206 meningitis
shots were given over the 2 day campaign.
Flu and meningitis shots are available at the A.P. Beutel Health Center.
The cost of a flu shot is $15.00 and a meningitis shot is $75.00.
A.P. Beutel is open from 8-5, Monday-Friday.
Call 845-6111 to make an appointment.
CAION, Spain (AP)
Winds reaching 60 mph and
high waves hindered shoreline
cleanup and seafood farmers
scrambled to salvage the cockle,
mussel and clam harvest
Wednesday, a day after the
tanker Prestige and its cargo of
fuel oil sank off Spain.
Yet the high winds, which
pushed waves to 26 feet, helped
break up a large oil slick off
Portugal as Spanish authorities
worried the storm was shoving a
second fuel oil slick closer to the
coast.
Seeking to ease fears of an
Exxon Valdez-style catastro
phe. Spain's Interior Ministry
said no fuel had spilled since
the single-hulled vessel broke
apart and sank about 150 miles
off the Spanish coast Tuesday,
six days after it ruptured in a
storm. Officials said they
hoped the oil would solidify
two miles down in frigid water,
limiting damage in the short
term.
The Prestige has spilled
about 1.6 million of its 20-mil
lion gallon load of heavy fuel
oil, a total twice the size of the
Exxon Valdez crude-oil spill
off Alaska in 1989.
Spain said Wednesday it had
spotted four oil slicks, includ
ing one 10 miles long and 3
miles wide, near the wreckage
about 150 miles off the
Galician coast.
Two smaller slicks are about
40 miles west of Cape
Finisterre. and a third is just off
the coast at the Muros inlet.
Spanish officials said. Portugal
said a large slick it was moni
toring Tuesday apparently dis
persed in rough seas.
Spanish Environment
Minister Jaume Matas said oil
has contaminated nearly 180
miles of Galicia’s scenic coast-
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LAXE. SPAIN- Sea gulls feast on spoiled fish that Spanishhejir
cials would not allow to be sold because of the oil spill from ta
2002. off the Spanish coast. Local fishing has been banned
the fish are also unable to be used for bait.
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line and rich fishing waters.
During a visit to a soiled beach
near the fishing port of Caion,
he estimated economic losses
at S42 million so far. and said
the cleanup could take six
months.
“We have to wait and be
prudent because we still don’t
know whether we have passed
the threshold of this crisis,”
Matas said.
Crews with shovels and
buckets worked in strong wind
and heavy rain to scoop up
sludge along Galicia’s craggy
coast. The government said
more than 250 tons of fuel oil
had been recovered so far, half
on land and half at sea by
skimmer boats.
Rough seas kept two of the
vessels — sent from
and Holland — out of tkrJ
sion Wednesday, the |
ministry said.
In some coastal areas ia|
hit h\ the fuel oil. seafooli
ers rushed to harvest ms
clams and cockles aka:
schedule. Spain’s fishins
is worth S330 million a yea
In the inlet of Riaddi
described as one of the
top mussel grounds, h;
pulled up ropes on whichcte
of black mussels gtC' a
plucked them all. Nffl
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