On December 3, 1992, the double-bottom Greek-flagged tanker Aegean Sea, en route to Repsol refinery in A Coruña

A Coruña

A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...

, Spain

Spain

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, suffered an accident off the Galician coast. It had successfully passed all required tests and revisions.

When the ship was about to enter the docks of A Coruña

A Coruña

A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...

, the wind speed was above 100 kilometre per hour, and visibility was under 100 metres (109.4 yd). This made it loose its assigned route and wreck.