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December 19 1989 oil tanker Khark 5 exploded. A smit tug towed the rest of the vessel away from the Moroccan coast. The Khark 5 was carrying 284,000 tons of Iranian light crude and lost 70,000 tons. Helicopters sprayed chemicals to keep the “goo” away from coast lines. Petroleum disaster specialist today vacuumed crude oil from 100 square miles.

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On 28th May 1991 cargo of 260,000 tons of crude oil exploded and caught fire about 900 miles off the coast of Angola covered an area of 80 square miles that spread around the tanker.

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There was a collision between ships in Nova that cause a very big spill in the ocean there was a lack of ligh with the ships when the collision had happened. They think it had something to do with the Iraq war. They think the ships got attacked on purpose. They didn’t do much for a clean up. They thought the oil would evaporate

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The Ashland oil spill happened on January 2, 1988. There was more than 500,000 gallons of diesel oil that had spilt into the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh. It traveled approximately 25 miles upstream. Ashland had paid more than $11.4 million for the clean up and for reimbursement costs.

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The Taylor oil spill happened in 2004 and was located in the Gulf of Mexico around 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The oil spill happened because of the destruction of a Taylor Energy oil platform during Hurricane Ivan. The amount of oil in the spill was about 1,400,000 gallons. They spent about $435 million on cleaning up the oil spill. They clean it up they had to pluck the deck of the platform from the ocean and plug about a third of the wells, which built a type of shield to keep the crude from rising.

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Spain 2002 an oil tanker carrying 50,000 tonnes of oil sank and polluted thousands of miles of coast. The clean up was a long process. Tens of thousands of people volunteered to help clean up the ocean. Environmental groups also helped with this mess. This oil spill cost 5.3 billion dollars.

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On November 10th 1988, the Liberian tanker ODYSSEY, almost fully loaded with a cargo of 132,157 oil, broke into two and sank in the ocean. Because of the rough weather conditions, the Canadian Coast Guard was only able to come within 1.75 miles of the ship while on fire. As the spill happened 700 miles from the nearest coastline, there were no concerns about pollution as the oil was expected to dissipate naturally. Ethan hinchley

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The U.S. flag ship went down 120 miles off the shore of Cape Hatteras loaded with oil. They cleaned the spill by using OSE II

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In 1991 the ship exploded and 144,000 tons of oil linked into the ocean most of it was burned up and the rest was cleaned up from pump ships

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a tanker collided with a platform. The platform developed a 45-degree tilt and had to be shut down. Wave action and corrosion apparently caused the riser to collapse into the wellhead causing a spill of approximately 1,500 barrels per day.

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Torrey Canyon was men of the world’s most serious oil spills. It spilled an estimated 25-36 million gallons of crude oil. The beaches were cleaned up within several years, but the oil from the spill was still killing wildlife today. To clean up the oil, they tried spraying it with detergent, but it didn’t work. They also tried untested methods to try to control the spill. The government decided to bomb the Torrey Canyon after the other attempts failed. The local people and organizations gave their time and resources to help the cleanup operations.

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Ss Atlantic empress a Greek oil tanker collided with the oil tanker Aegean captain in 1979 is sank and created the fifth largest oil spill on record and the largest shop based spill. Dispersants were used to treat the spilled oil.

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The montara oil spill was an oil and gas leak. Took place in the Montara oil field in the Timor sea, off the northern coast of Western Australia. It is considered on of Australia's worst oil disasters. On August 21 2009, the slick was released following a blowout from the Montara wellhead platform. The first 4 attempts to plug the oil leak was unsuccessful but the 5th attempt was successful. They pumped approximately 3,400 barrels of mud into a relief well to stop the leak.

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Over 240,000 barrels of crude oil are dumped into the Delta every year. The UN recently has lauched a $1B project to clean up the oil, but it could take over 25 years to completely clean it up.

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The Lakeview Gusher is one of the largest oil spills in u.s. history. There was estimated 9 million barrels of oil leaked. It took 18 months to get the oil under control . Workers were hired to fill up sandbags around the gusher

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On December 19th, 1972 the South Korean tanker SEA STAR collided with the Brazilian tanker HORTA BARBOSA. Both vessels caught on fire but while HORTA BARBOSA extinguished in a day the SEA STAR lasted for five days. This all resulted in a spillage of approximately 115,000 tones of oil that hurt the Gulf of Omen very badly. It was cleaned up either by being burned or contained and taken from the surface, and the oil that was on land was cleaned mechanically and with the use of despersants.