Sea Empress disaster. Sequence of BBC news reports covering 9 days (16/02/96 to 24/02/96).

The oil tanker Sea Empress, carrying 130,000 tonnes of Forties Blend North Sea crude oil, ran aground in the entrance to Milford Haven, South-West Wales on the evening of 15th February 1996. Although the tanker was refloated within a couple of hours, it sustained serious damage to its starboard and centre tanks, resulting in a massive release of oil. Several attempts to bring the vessel under control and to undertake a ship-to-ship transfer operation failed and the tanker grounded and refloated several more times. In all, some 72,000 tonnes of crude oil and 370 tonnes of heavy fuel oil were released into the sea between the initial grounding and the final refloating operation.

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