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Oil Spills throughout history
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The Amoco Cadiz oil tanker
Off the coast of Brittany, France, after it steering failed in a severe storm. Led to the spilling of 1.8 million barrels of oil. -
Castillo de Bellver
Exploded and sank off the coast of Cape Town carrying roughly 250,000 tons of crude oil -
Odyssey
Exploded and sank in the North Atlantic, spilling 1 million barrels of crude oil. -
Exxon Valdez
Oil tanker bound for Long Beach California, dumping more than 250,000 barrels of crude oil killing animals and plants throughout Prince William Sound. -
ABT Summer
Exploded about 900 miles off of coast of Angola, spilling it's entire cargo of 1.9 million barrels at sea. -
Sea Impress
Went down on the rocks off Milford Haven on Britain's west coast. One of the country's worst disasters over 70,000 tonnes of oil spilled. -
Tanker Erika
Sank during a storm in December, leaking thousands of tonnes of oil into the Bay of Biscay causing major environmental disaster. -
Sanchi Tanker
Carrying 136,000 tonnes Iranian condensate collided with a cargo ship off Shanghai, caught fire and burned for a week. All 32 crew members were killed. -
New Diamond Supertanker
Carrying about 2 million barrels of oil caught fire with one of the 23 crew members presumed dead. -
Israel Oil Spill
Was an ecological disaster which occurred in February 2021. Starting on 16 February 2021, dozens to hundreds of tons of tar washed up on the beaches along a 160-kilo meter stretch of Israel's Mediterranean coast