During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_oil_spill" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prestige oil spill"><i id="mwAVA">Prestige</i> oil spill</a>, a storm bursts a tank of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tanker" id="mwAVE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oil tanker">oil tanker</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Prestige" id="mwAVI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="MV Prestige">MV <i id="mwAVM">Prestige</i></a>, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)" id="mwAVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Galicia (Spain)">Galicia</a>, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill" id="mwAVU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Exxon Valdez oil spill"><i id="mwAVY">Exxon Valdez</i> oil spill</a>.