Amoco cadiz à PORTSALL.
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bob29
N 48° 33.453 W 004° 42.336
30U E 374149 N 5379676
20,5 tonnes d'acier certainement une ancre des plus importantes de la collection.20,5 tons of steel certainly an anchor of most important of the collection.
Waymark Code: WM1X08
Location: France
Date Posted: 07/23/2007
Views: 66
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Le 16 mars 1978 à 21 heures, le pétroler libérien Amoco Cadiz, affrété par
la compagnie Standard Oil of Indiana, s'échouait, au terme d'une longue dérive
au Nord d'Ouessant, sur les rochers de Men Goulven, à l'entrée de Portsall. De
ses soutes allaient inexorablement s'échapper 220 000 tonnes de pétrole,
polluant toute la côte du Finistère Nord, du Conquet à Bréhat.
Vingt ans après cet épisode tragique, si les rochers de granite ont retrouvé
leur superbe dans la blancheurde l'écume, si les plages sentent encore bon le
sable chaud en plein cœur de l'été, si les goélands et les fous de Bassan ont
survécu à la disgrâce, et si les hommes ont mis en place, comme à la pointe de
Corsen et à Ouessant, des dispositifs de surveillance du trafic, le naufrage a
marqué les esprits et reste attaché à cette côte comme une malédiction. L'ancre
du pétrolier exposé sur le quai comme une relique " croche " pour toujours dans
nos mémoires.
On March 16, 1978 at 9 p.m., the pétroler bast Amoco
Cadiz, chartered by the Standard company Oil of Indiana, was failed, at the end
of a long drift in the North of Ushant, on the rocks of Men Goulven, the entry
of Portsall. From its compartments 220.000 tons were going unrelentingly to
escape from oil, polluting all the coast of Northern Finistere, of Conquet with
Bréhat.
Twenty years after this tragic episode, if the
granite rocks found their superb in the blancheurde scum, if the beaches smell
still good hot sand in full heart of the summer, if the seagulls and the gannet
survived disgrace, and if the men set up, as with the point of Corsen and in
Ushant, of the devices of monitoring of the traffic, the shipwreck marked the
spirits and remains attached to this coast like a curse. The anchor of the
tanker exposed on the quay like a relic “croche” for always in our reports.
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