11 Most #Devastating #Oil_Spills in #History!
Oil spill #disasters have created mayhem in the #maritime world for many years now.
Serving as a #catastrophe to both #industry and the #environment, the result of an accident involving ships or oil rigs cause #ocean water to become #contaminated with #poison. 3/12/20
Here are 11 of the largest and worst fossil fuel spills in world history.
11. #Ixtoc 1 Oil Well
A grave disaster in the Gulf of Mexico’s rich cobalt waters
In the Caribbean Sea where ultramarine waters are splashed with neon reefs and rainbow schools of fish, a 1979 disaster
Here lies the world’s largest single source of petroleum and hub of 25% of the planets’ oil production— the Persian Gulf.
The Odyssey went down only 700 miles from the coast of Canada that November of 1988; in the wake of tragedy,
7. #ABT_Summer
In May of 1991, about 700 nautical miles from the coast of Angola..
70 miles northwest of South Africa’s Capetown, a Spanish tanker lies..
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