Oil Spill of The Century

March 16th, 1978 : the Amoco Cadiz, a supertanker loaded with 220 000 tons of petrol, runs aground the rocks of Portsall, in Brittany, France. The accident causes the biggest oil spill France has ever known, and is still today known as one of the 20th century’s biggest ecological catastrophes. 40 years later, what’s left of the Amoco Cadiz trauma ? Loïck Peyron, a worldwide-known sailor and sea-lover, is coming back to the tragedy’s epicenter to understand how nature recovered from the catastrophe and what lessons were learnt from it. (National Geographic)