Workers tirelessly clean the beaches of Brittany, France, in the wake of the devastating Amoco Cadiz oil spill in 1978. – Vintage Photograph

Dimensions: 16.5 x 12.3 cm

IMS SKU: SCAN-IMS-04896080

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CLEANING UP AFTER “AMOCO CADIZ” An endlese bask: tide after tide brings in more oil from the ship- bracked supertenker “Amoco Cadiz”, which ran aground off the Britanny coast in March 1978 – and still tha Lorkers labour like Sisyphus to clean up the beaches. The U.S. cuned, Liberian-registered “Amooo Cadiz” spilled a total of 220,000 Sons of crude oil into the se8, thus causing the world’s biggest sver oil dienster. Please acknowledge; Photograph by JULIEN QUIDEAU CAPER& Bildarkiv XPRESS) LONDON Betalas vid publicering 1928 T 28 COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD. RUSSELL COURT, CORAM STREET, LONDON, W.C.1. 01-8374488 & 9393