1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill

The American-owned, Liberian-flagged supertanker lost its steering mechanism and ran aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the Brittany coast in Finistère, on 16 March 1978. The hull was damaged and the cargo of crude oil was released along the coast. French soldiers were still searching the shoreline for oil four months later.

Date
1978-03-16
Tonnes spilled (ITOPF)
223000
What the pin marks
Where she ran aground and sank, off Portsall in Brittany.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco_Cadiz

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: tanker, grounding, brittany, steering failure

Coordinates: 48.6, -4.7

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