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ocean resources will probably centre on the 'sheries. However,
a
more
immediate threat comes from pôllution, particularly in
crowded waterways and coastal regions, Where already-ibmerits
international action for the sake of preserving rather than Sharing
the marine resources.
>
.
'
;
Pollution
For years individuals, industrial companies and governments
have been paying lip service to the idea of conserving natural
resources and of preventing further deterioration as a result of
pollution and ignorant usage. And yet the movement to prevent
pollution has not really succeeded in outpacing the »deterioration of
the environment. It takes a catastrophe to bring such bazar—ds to
attention. The land has had its ‘»dust bowls’ with vast areas laid
waste. In 1967 thesea had its rst major case of
from
the »Torrey Canyon. When this tanker ran aground off the southèwest
tip of the British Isles it demonstrated with an appallingnality the
damage that oil can do. Press and television dain confrontedpeople
with dead sea birds, clawless ciabs, soiled bathers and beaches
caked with a-dirty brown ‘mousse’.
_
_
: .r«’…
’
.
The drama
.
started just before 9 o’clock on the morning of
Saturday, March 18, when the T array Canyon, loaded with 117,000tons of Kuwait crude oil, ground to arhalton the Seven Stones Reef
15 miles west of Land’S End. According to reports, sixof hertanks‘
were tom open by the impact and they immediately spilled oil into
the surrounding sea. By nightfall a narr0w slick,:some eightmiles
.
long,stretched away southwards from the stranded "tanker. DŒpite .
,
numerous salvage attempts, the Tomy Canyon was
off when,as a result of the poundingby-rough seas.for::eightçdays,»
herback was broken.
….
:
.
On Monday, March
of
even apart, of the-ship,
destroy the remainingcargo bÿ*usingxbombs to openthedeCk 0frthe
tanker over thecargo tanks and then set re to :theebil. The
.
evening the onslaught began.iBuccaneä aircraft of. the Royal Navy
beganxa series of
on the : ToWey‘ Canyon using Loco—pound—
high—explosive bombs.
"
The Buccaneer—Ssgèwere: fdllowed by RAF
Hunter jets which, dropped tanks of fuel to encourage the res.
Theattacks
and in all s0‘me160,000
p‘ounds.of high explosive, 10,000 ga11011sof«aviation kerosene, 3,000
215
ocean resources will probably centre on the 'sheries. However,
a
more
immediate threat comes from pôllution, particularly in
crowded waterways and coastal regions, Where already-ibmerits
international action for the sake of preserving rather than Sharing
the marine resources.
>
.
'
;
Pollution
For years individuals, industrial companies and governments
have been paying lip service to the idea of conserving natural
resources and of preventing further deterioration as a result of
pollution and ignorant usage. And yet the movement to prevent
pollution has not really succeeded in outpacing the »deterioration of
the environment. It takes a catastrophe to bring such bazar—ds to
attention. The land has had its ‘»dust bowls’ with vast areas laid
waste. In 1967 thesea had its rst major case of
from
the »Torrey Canyon. When this tanker ran aground off the southèwest
tip of the British Isles it demonstrated with an appallingnality the
damage that oil can do. Press and television dain confrontedpeople
with dead sea birds, clawless ciabs, soiled bathers and beaches
caked with a-dirty brown ‘mousse’.
_
_
: .r«’…
’
.
The drama
.
started just before 9 o’clock on the morning of
Saturday, March 18, when the T array Canyon, loaded with 117,000tons of Kuwait crude oil, ground to arhalton the Seven Stones Reef
15 miles west of Land’S End. According to reports, sixof hertanks‘
were tom open by the impact and they immediately spilled oil into
the surrounding sea. By nightfall a narr0w slick,:some eightmiles
.
long,stretched away southwards from the stranded "tanker. DŒpite .
,
numerous salvage attempts, the Tomy Canyon was
off when,as a result of the poundingby-rough seas.for::eightçdays,»
herback was broken.
….
:
.
On Monday, March
of
even apart, of the-ship,
destroy the remainingcargo bÿ*usingxbombs to openthedeCk 0frthe
tanker over thecargo tanks and then set re to :theebil. The
.
evening the onslaught began.iBuccaneä aircraft of. the Royal Navy
beganxa series of
on the : ToWey‘ Canyon using Loco—pound—
high—explosive bombs.
"
The Buccaneer—Ssgèwere: fdllowed by RAF
Hunter jets which, dropped tanks of fuel to encourage the res.
Theattacks
and in all s0‘me160,000
p‘ounds.of high explosive, 10,000 ga11011sof«aviation kerosene, 3,000