PRESTIGE INQUIRY
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA SPANISH professor of shipping sciences has told a European Parliament inquiry into the Prestige disaster that the ill-fated tanker's captain Apostolos Mangouras should not be blamed for the tragedy. Instead, said Felipe Louzán Lago, also a merchant navy captain, blamed the Spanish authorities for not allowing Mr Mangouras to sail to a port of refuge. This, he told MEPs "had been the cause of this disaster". He added that no competent authorities had been available to help the stricken vessel and that "had been a total lack of coordination ...
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