Supertanker <i id="mw5w"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco_Cadiz" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Amoco Cadiz">Amoco Cadiz</a></i> splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brittany">Brittany</a>, resulting in the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oil spill">oil spill</a> in history at that time.<sup about="#mwt109" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}' id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_16#cite_note-20" id="mw6w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7A">[20]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"><cite about="#mwt106" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFJonathan1978">Jonathan, Kandell (31 March 1978). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/31/archives/new-jersey-pages-oil-spills-longterm-effect-could-be-slight-110.html" id="mwCqA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Oil spill's long-term effect could be slight"</a>. <i id="mwCqE"><a href="./The_New_York_Times" id="mwCqI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. p.<span id="mwCqM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>15<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCqQ">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCqU">3 October</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt106" class="Z3988" id="mwCqY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Oil+spill%27s+long-term+effect+could+be+slight&amp;rft.pages=15&amp;rft.date=1978-03-31&amp;rft.aulast=Jonathan&amp;rft.aufirst=Kandell&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1978%2F03%2F31%2Farchives%2Fnew-jersey-pages-oil-spills-longterm-effect-could-be-slight-110.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+16"></span></span>