Amoco Cadiz oil spill

Title

Amoco Cadiz oil spill

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Mar 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:02:21

Description

Interview with male speaker representing Department of Trade & Industry about lessons to be learnt from the Amoco Cadiz disaster. The crude oil tanker split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany on 16/03/78 resulting in a large oil spill. Interviewer and interviewee not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Shipwrecks; Petroleum; UK; France; Oil; Seaborne disasters; Oil pollution; Marine pollution; Amoco Cadiz (ship); Brittany

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