
50 years on: the oily legacy of the Torrey Canyon
50 years ago, the oil tanker “Torrey Canyon” ran aground off the UK coast, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. What followed was the world’s first major marine oil spill.In the morning hours of March 18th, 1967, the crew of the “Torrey Canyon” – a large, and at the time newest-generation, state-of-the-art crude oil …