In both cases, efforts were made to burn off the oil from the ocean’s surface. But, as the 1967 Torrey Canyon experience showed – the stranded tanker was bombed with napalm – oil on water doesn’t burn well, and the emulsified oil called “chocolate mousse” hardly burned at all.
在这两次泄漏事故中，人们都试图烧掉漂浮在海面的原油。但1967年托利峡谷号的前车之鉴表明——人们用凝固汽油弹炸毁了那艘搁浅的油轮——浮在水面的原油很难燃烧充分，而被称为“巧克力慕斯”的乳化油则根本无法燃烧。