Amoco Cadiz oil spill

Title

Amoco Cadiz oil spill

Genre

News report

TX Date

Mar 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:02:17

Description

Report on the Amoco Cadiz crude oil tanker which 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. Captain Pasqaule Barderi has been questioned by French police and has described exactly how the disaster occurred which the reporter relates. Reporter not identified.

Contributors

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Keywords

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

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