LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Amoco Cadiz oil spill

Genre

Interview

TX Date

21 Mar 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:02:14

Description

Interview with an unidentified male spokesman for the Channel Islands on strong winds interrupting measures to limit pollution and fears for pollution of Jersey coast after the Amoco Cadiz crude oil tanker splitting 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 not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

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

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