Impact of the Prestige on the sea floor

Principia collaborated with Repsol in the evaluation of the wrecked Prestige tanker. We analysed the sinking process and the impact of the bow fragment against the sea floor to determine its final conditions and its future stability during extraction of the fuel still remaining in its tanks.

The calculations incorporated the deformability of the hull and its internal structure, the presence of fluids both inside and outside the ship, and the behaviour of the sea bottom.