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More troops scooping up oil©Associated PressDecember 9, 2002 MADRID, Spain -- The Spanish military sent reinforcements and an oil platform was on its way to help with cleanup operations from the sunken tanker Prestige as officials observed new slicks off already blackened coastal areas. Two navy ships docked in the Atlantic port city of Vigo carrying 750 sailors charged with cleaning hard-to-reach rocky coves in the Galicia region, the government said. The army also said 4,500 soldiers and 500 air force members from all over Spain started traveling north on Sunday to join the effort. The reinforcements will boost the number of military personnel helping to alleviate the ecological catastrophe to more than 8,000. The aging, single-hulled Prestige was carrying 20.5-million gallons of fuel oil when it broke in two and sank Nov. 19, six days after rupturing in a storm and starting to leak. More than 100 beaches have been soiled by globs of oil.
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