Amoco Cadiz oil spill Amoco Cadiz oil spill The oil tanker "Amoco Cadiz" ran aground on Portsall Rocks, from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. NOAA estimates that the total oil spill amounted to 220,880 metric tonnes of oil. En route from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam, Netherlands, via a scheduled stop at Lyme Bay, Great Britain, the ship encountered stormy weather with gale conditions and high seas while in the English Channel. At around 09:45, a heavy
Sanchi oil tanker collision highly flammable type of ultra-light crude oil. "Sanchi" was a double-hulled Suezmax crude oil tanker, with an overall length of , a gross tonnage of 85,462, and deadweight tonnage of . The tanker was built in 2008 by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries at Yeongam, South Korea, for the National Iranian Tanker Company. The other ship involved in the collision, "CF Crystal", was a bulk carrier on a voyage from Kalama, Washington, U.S., to Machong, Guangdong Province, China, with of grain. The ship was built in 2011 by the Chengxi Shipyard Co Ltd, Jiangyin, China, for the current owner Changhong Group