On this day, 47 years ago, on March 19, 1978 (February 11, 1978 in the lunar calendar), an American oil tanker accident, polluting the sea off France with more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil. The Amoco tanker sank into the English Channel near the coast of Brittany. On March 19, 1978, according to marine pollution experts, more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil from the Amoco-Cadis tanker leaked and floated near the coast of Brittany, becoming the largest oil spill in history. What is worrying is that the rough waves will destroy the tanker, causing all the more than 230,000 barrels of crude oil it carries to pour out. Oil has severely polluted 70 miles of Brittany coast. Oil layers have emerged on the surface of the English Channel, 10 miles long and 7 miles wide, and are drifting towards Jersey and Guernsey. The tanker's owner, Indiana Mobil Oil, pumped it to the smaller ship, but the work would have to wait for three to four days before the pump was transported to the parked tanker. French officials are investigating the alleged dispute that caused the disaster. It turned out that the dispute broke out between a West German tugboat captain on the tanker Amoco-Kadis over financial costs. While the two sides were bargaining, the towing line broke, causing the tanker to hit a rock. The captain of the tanker and the owner of the tugboat were both taken into custody by French police. The most serious oil spill in the past was the tanker Tory Kanyan, which ran aground off the coast of Britain 11 years ago. Loss of 100,000 barrels of oil.