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The Black Flood: Lessons of the Torrey Canyon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

L. Oudet
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Extract

It is not often that a drama of the sea provides the main story in the news, and it is still more unusual for such an occurrence to continue to occupy the headlines; but the Torrey Canyon disaster was unique in having done this for a whole month and more. Day after day, there was a slow and inexorable increase in the area affected by the catastrophe and in its duration: while such protective measures as could be improvised could seldom do more than repair damage that it was impossible to prevent.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1968 , pp. 41 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1968

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