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Amoco Cadiz was a VLCC (very large crude carrier) owned by Amoco Transport Corp and transporting crude oil for Shell Oil. Operating under the Liberian flag, she ran aground on 16 March 1978 on Portsall Rocks, 2 km (1.2 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France.
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill took place on 16 March 1978, when the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, owned by the American petroleum company Amoco, ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 2 km (1.2 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France. The vessel ultimately split in three and sank.
Oct 8, 2019 · In the morning hours of 16 March 1978, the Liberian-flagged VLCC Amoco Cadiz was en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe with more than 220,000 tonnes of crude oil, when an enormous wave hit the vessel, causing a steering failure and leaving the ship adrift towards the Breton coast in a heavy storm.
…the 1978 breakup of the Amoco Cadiz off Britanny, France, and the 1989 grounding of the Exxon Valdez off Alaska, U.S. The oil spills from these vessels caused great damage, and political reaction led to strict rules on the construction and operation of oil tankers.
Oct 9, 2018 · On March 16, 1978, the Amoco Cadiz tanker ran aground off the Brittany coast, causing one of the world's worst oil pollution disasters. The 227,000-ton tanker broke up on the reefs off the small...
Aug 4, 1990 · Twelve years after its tanker Amoco Cadiz broke apart and deluged the Brittany beaches (see above) with 220 000 tonnes of oil, Amoco must pay, a judged ruled in Chicago.
On the morning of 16 March 1978, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, en route from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam with 223,000 tonnes of crude oil, drifted towards the Breton coast in a heavy storm after a failure of her steering system.
At the time, the Amoco Cadiz incident resulted in the largest loss of marine life ever recorded from an oil spill. Mortalities of most animals occurred over the two month period following the spill. Two weeks following the accident, millions of dead mollusks, sea urchins, and other bottom dwelling organisms washed ashore.
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill (223,000 metric tons) of March 1978 is the largest and best studied tanker spill in history. Of the total oil lost, 30,000 tons (13.5 percent) rapidly became incorporated ...
Jul 31, 2023 · On the 16th March 1978, the super tanker Amoco Cadiz was shipwrecked off the coast of Ploudalmézeau. More than 220 000 tons of fuel spilled onto the Léon coast. The scale of the disaster was unprecedented and shocked the population deeply, especially since the government’s response.
