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Vessel-Source Pollution And The Law Of The Sea, John W. Kindt
Vessel-Source Pollution And The Law Of The Sea, John W. Kindt
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
On March 16, 1978, history's worst oil spill occurred when the tanker Amoco Cadiz lost her steering and drifted onto rocky shoals off the French coast. Approximately 223,000 tons of oil were spilled, polluting and ruining over 100 miles of the Brittany coast, an area that previously had supplied one-third of France's seafood and had attracted tourists from all over Europe. Despite all this damage, only thirty million dollars was available for cleanup--none to repair the ecological devastation. Although this well-publicized accident shocked the world, it was only one of many oil spills that occurred during 1978.
By definition, "vessel-source …