A fuel oil stained bird stands on rocks on the devastated coast of the Cies...

A fuel oil stained bird stands on rocks on the devastated coast of the Cies Islands natural reserve in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia, December 12, 2002. [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 split 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.