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Top 10 Worst Oil Spills
Oil spills are becoming a serious threat to our marine ecosystems and can cause damage our environment we breathe. This is a top ten list of worst oil spills in history that cause environmental damage to marine ecosystems.
10. M / T Haven Tanker, 1991
Location: Genoa, Italy
Gallons: 42 million
A tanker ship exploded and apparently shoddily maintained later sank off the coast of Italy. The accident killed six people. Immediately after the incident, an effort by Italy to attract the Haven to the beach failed, and the ship (250 meters) in 820-foot-long submerged off the coast of Genoa. Today is believed to be the largest shipwreck in the world and is a popular tourist destination for divers.
9. Odyssey Oil Spill, 1988
Location: 700 nautical miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada
Gallons: 43 million
In November 1988 the Liberian tanker Odyssey, almost full to the brim with North Sea crude oil, broke in two and sank in the North Atlantic 700 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. This was also burned by drowning.
8. Amoco Cadiz, 1978
Location: Off Brittany, France
Gallons: 68.7 million
Amoco Cadiz tankers ran aground off the coast of Brittany after the steering failed in a severe storm. Its entire cargo 246,000 tones of light crude oil discharged into the turbulent waters of the English Channel, with grim consequences kill more marine life than other oil spill to date at the time.
7. Castillo de Bellver, 1983
Location: Off Saldanha Bay, South Africa
Gallons: 78.5 million
Other Torcher, the Castillo de Bellver burning about 70 miles northwest of Cape Town, South Africa, on August 6, 1983. Blazing tanker abandoned and drifting off the coast until it broke into two. Stern upside down and sank into the deep ocean, with some 110,000 tons of oil left in his tank. Part bow pulled away and drowned in a controlled explosion. The ship was carrying almost 79 million gallons of crude oil at the time of the accident.
6. ABT Summer, 1991
Location: Off the coast of Angola
Gallons: 80 million
When travel to Rotterdam, fully loaded tankers ABT Summer experience onboard explosion and caught fire while it is 900 miles off the coast of Angola, payload leaked into the sea. Surrounded by booming oil spill that stretches 80 miles square, tanker burned for three days before thesinking.
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