Today work with the wrecked tanker continued on San Cristobal. The team of national and international technicians is trying to decide what to do with the ship.

The Galapagos National Park patrol launch Sirenian remains in Floreana where recovery of bunker fuel continues. Today, Tuesday 30, two more marine iguanas were found covered in oil. They received adequate treatment and were then set free. Another Audubon shearwater (marine bird) died. A veterinarian from the Galapagos National Park and two specialists joined the Floreana based work team to

January 17, 2001 - Isla San Cristóbal, Galápagos. At approximately 2200 local time (UTC-6) on January 16, 2001, the tanker Jessica, owned by Acotramar, ran aground at Schiavoni Reef, about 800 meters from Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristóbal Island. The vessel was arriving from the port of Guayaquil on the Ecuadorian mainland, carrying 160.000 gallons of diesel destined to be delivered to the fuel dispatch station on Baltra Island, plus 80.000 gallons bunker fuel (IFO), which were to be used to fuel the tourist vessel Galápagos Explorer II.

Yesterday, Saturday January 27, the Galapagos National Park patrol launch Guadalupe River, left for Isabela, transporting equipment and combustible for the mitigation and control of a fuel slick resulting from last week's spill. The slick, which was found off Tortuga Islet yesterday at noon, collided with Tintoreras Islet and reached Puerto Villamil Beach on Isabela Island. Both the Islet and the beach have been cleaned and the situation is under control. Monitoring activity will continue because filaments of combustible were found at Quinta