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1978.

On the morning of March 16th, 1978, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz suffered a failure in the steering mechanism ultimately causing a vast oil spill. It released around 255 million liters of crude oil into the Atlantic, off the coast of France. It was the main event of 1978.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, [between 1999 and 2009?]
Series:World history in video.
Subjects:
Amoco Cadiz (Ship)
Oil spills > France > Atlantic Coast.
Déversements de pétrole > France > Atlantique, Côte de l'.
Oil spills.
France > Atlantic Coast.
Documentary.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Alexander Street Video.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Courts métrages.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:On the morning of March 16th, 1978, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz suffered a failure in the steering mechanism ultimately causing a vast oil spill. It released around 255 million liters of crude oil into the Atlantic, off the coast of France. It was the main event of 1978.
Item Description:Previously released on DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
Physical Description:1 online resource (6 min.).