A worker empties a sack full of solidified fuel oil collected on the Basque coast in a recycling plant in Zierbena on February 4, 2003. "Crown Resources", the metals and energy trader, is suing the owners of the Bahamanian-flagged Prestige tanker which sank off the coast of Spain in November. The Swiss-based company had chartered the Prestige to carry 77,000 tonnes of fuel oil which is now spilling on to [French] and Spanish beaches.