Amoco Cadiz disaster causes

Title

Amoco Cadiz disaster causes

Genre

Interview

TX Date

8 Mar 1979

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:02:52

Description

Interview with Gerald Cooper, Liberia’s commissioner for maritime affairs, on the causes of the grounding of the supertanker Amoco Cadiz off Brittany in 03/78, following a report into the world’s worst oil pollution disaster. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Gerald Cooper

Keywords

Shipwrecks; Reports; Seaborne disasters; Ships; Petroleum industry; Oil pollution; Marine pollution; Brittany; Amoco Cadiz; Liberia

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