Sentences with phrase «oil tanker broke»

Then, on November 13, 2002, the hull of the Prestige oil tanker broke in half off the north - western coast of Spain, releasing 63,000 tonnes of oil.

While necessarily simplifying (and, at times, unnecessarily Hollywood - izing) the true story, the film adheres to the basic facts: in 1952, with a nor» easter battering the seas off Cape Cod, two oil tankers break in two more or less simultaneously, dividing the Coast Guard's resources in mounting rescue efforts.

Not exact matches

Ottawa has eight weeks to break the backs of oil tanker opponents.

Carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of lubricating oil, the tanker broke into three parts and has been a chronic source of oil pollution over many years.

In 1952, Bernie and a small crew braved brutal elements off the coast of Cape Cod to search for a stranded oil tanker that had been broken in half by the storm.

The storm ripped through an oil tanker called the SS Pendleton, literally breaking it in half with over 30 men trapped inside.

A mock board game was distributed in 1969 by Humble Oil (later part of Exxon) to promote the passage of an ice - breaking tanker, the USS Manhattan, through the Northwest Passage.

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

In January 1993 a deep storm (the most intense system of low pressure outside the tropics ever recorded over the north Atlantic) miraculously broke up the oil spilt from the tanker Braer.