Florida, 1969
Location: Buzzards Bay, off West Falmouth, Mass.
Date: September 16, 1969
Material spilled: No. 2 fuel oil
Amount spilled: 189,000 gallons
Spill extent: **
Bouchard 65, 1974
Location: Buzzards Bay, near Cape Cod Canal
Date: October 9, 1974
Material spilled: Diesel fuel
Amount spilled: 11,000 to 37,000 gallons
Spill extent: **
Argo Merchant, 1976
Location: 29 miles southeast of Nantucket Island
Date: December 15, 1976
Material spilled: No. 6 Fuel Oil and cutter stock
Amount spilled: 183,000 barrels
Spill extent: uncertain
Ixtoc 1, 1979
Location: Bay of Campeche, Gulf of Mexico
Date: June 3, 1979 to March 23, 1980
Material spilled: Crude oil
Amount spilled: est. 126 million gallons
Spill extent: 1,100 sq. miles
Exxon Valdez, 1989
Location: Prince William Sound, Alaska
Date: March 23, 1989
Material spilled: North Slope crude oil
Amount spilled: 10.8 million gallons
Spill extent: 1,300 miles of coastline
North Cape, 1996
Location: Block Island Sound off Moonstone Beach, R.I.
Date: January 19, 1996
Material spilled: No. 2 fuel oil
Amount spilled: approx. 828,000 gallons
Spill extent:
Bouchard 120, 2003
Location: Buzzards Bay off Westport, Mass.
Date: April 27, 2003
Material spilled: No. 6 fuel oil
Amount spilled: approx. 98,000 gallons
Spill extent: more than 90 miles of shoreline
COSCO Busan, 2007
Location: San Francisco Bay
Date: November 7, 2007
Material spilled: Bunker fuel
Amount spilled: approx. 53,500 gallons
Spill extent: 150 sq. miles; 26 miles of shoreline
Hebei Spirit, 2007
Location: Yellow Sea off Taean County, South Korea
Date: December 7, 2007
Material spilled: Light crude oil
Amount spilled: est. 12,547 tons
Spill extent: more than 450 miles of shoreline
Deepwater Horizon, 2010
Location: Northern Gulf of Mexico
Date: April 20 to July 15, 2010
Material spilled:
Amount spilled: 172 million gallons
Spill extent: