Ten days ago, the oil tanker Grande America sank in the Atlantic Ocean through the coast of La Rossell, in the north. Five days later, the remains of the fuel shot down by the ship arrived in Euskal Herria.

The first surprise came the day after the disaster, when a blackened bird sank off the coast of the Landes. Two days later, another bird, also dirty, appeared with 70 percent of his body stained with fuel.

At first, experts considered it implausible that this bird has traveled the bay of Txingudi from the place where the disaster occurred. Stéphane Maury, President of the Hegalaldia Association, said: “The oil tanker in Grande America sank 100 kilometers from Hendaya and it seems difficult for a bird with such a dirty body to have flown at that distance.” “However, it’s not impossible,” he said, and in fact.

The Kote Ezenarro priest of Hendaia has been very attentive to what happened: “The municipal technical services have not detected the discharge of fuel in our coastline, but we are very attentive.” The meteorological state of the sea has influenced the evolution of the disaster, which has affected several vessels.

Baiona sub-prefect Hervé Jonathan has also put in place monitoring and analysis mechanisms for the state of sea waters. In the event of an extended risk of contamination, in addition to determining the responsibilities of those responsible for the disaster, it has asked the coastal authorities to act responsibly in response to the event.

The sub-prefect has announced that “in the event of a disaster, Polmar Fund money has been temporarily extended to finance pollution containment operations”.