Rudesindo Cantarell Jimenez, a commercial fisherman, pulled up his nets after fishing a favorite spot in Mexico's Bay of Campeche during 1961 and noticed they were covered with an oily substance. He assumed there had been an oil spill and informed officials of Pemex, the Mexican national oil company, in hopes of being compensated for his ruined nets. However, after checking their records, the officials politely told Cantarell there had been no spill from any company installation or ship in the area at that time.
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