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Torrey Canyon oil spill

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The Torrey Canyon oil spill on the southwest coast of the UK in the spring of 1967 is one of the world's most serious oil spills which left an international legal and environmental legacy that lasted decades. At the time the world's most serious oil spill, as of 2014 it remains the UK's worst, with an estimated 32 million gallons of crude oil spilled. The wreck of the supertanker SS Torrey Canyon affected hundreds of miles of coastline in the UK, France, Guernsey, and Spain and mitigation efforts involved bombing raids by aircraft from the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.[2]

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