Atlantic Empress

Atlantic Empress

The "Atlantic Empress" was a Greek oil tanker that was involved in two large oil spills. The spills together are the fourth largest total oil spill on record [http://www.coltoncompany.com/shipping/statistics/spillstanker.htm] and the largest ship-based spill [http://library.thinkquest.org/C004218/OilLoc.htm] .

On July 19th, 1979 during a tropical rainstorm, the ship collided with the "Aegean Captain", off Trinidad and Tobago, spilling 287,000 metric tonnes of oil consigned to Mobil. The damage incurred from the collision was never completely remedied, and while being towed on August 2nd, the "Atlantic Empress" continued to spill an additional 41 million gallons (all together being 276,000 tonnes of crude oil) off Barbados. The "Aegean Captain" also spilled a large quantity of oil from her No. 1 tank. The "Atlantic Empress" sank on 3rd August in deep water and her remaining cargo solidified. The spill from the two ships fortunately never came ashore.

By comparison, the infamous "Exxon Valdez" spill ten years later only saw 37,000 metric tonnes of oil released.

ee also

*List of oil spills

References

* [http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001451.html Oil Spills and Disasters]
* [http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/student_pages/1999/tryfell/OIL%20WEB/Largest%20Spills/Table%202.html Largest Oil Spill Table] Link inactive.
*Modern Marvels, Engineering Disasters 14 (2004)
* [http://www.itopf.com/stats.html]


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