On this day, 58 years ago, on March 28, 1967 (February 18, 1967, the tanker Tori Valley leaked a large amount of crude oil. Crude oil from the supertanker Torrey Valley leaked into the sea outside the UK On March 28, 1967, a huge oil flow threatened most of the coast of France. From the Brittany Peninsula to the Cardigan Peninsula, thousands of seabirds took off from the Black Sea, their feathers were covered with crude oil. The accident was caused by the supertanker Torrey Valley hitting rocks off Cornwall, England. Mechanical failure and bad weather were the culprits. The British authorities thought the ship was hopeless, so they ordered the Royal Air Force to blow it up, hoping that the oil would catch fire. But their plan failed, and the oil flowed along the ocean currents to the French coast. Residents there are using sandbags, floating fences and oil pumps to stop the spread of crude oil, but all their efforts are to no avail. It will take several years for nature to completely remove these oil stains and compensate for all losses.