Not wanting to hijack this thread which is about the current disaster but here is an interesting youtube video about the Torrey Canyon disaster which shows how far we've come in environmental cleanup methods since then. They used tons and tons of detergent which, it turned out later, did more harm than the oil. The video and sound effect sounds so ancient now with that old style of reporting that sounds like a second world war report. The vehicles you see are from the 50s and 60s. I was 12 at the time. The washing of seabirds is shown. Didn't have Dawn back then.
Hope you don't mind me posting this, Michelle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV-EhBesVjg
