Ixtoc I oil spill. This spill was caused by a blownout oil well. The well ranwild for 9 months and spilled over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay ofCampeche.
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Date: 1979 September circa
Credit: Collection of Doug Helton, NOAA/NOS/ORR
Location: Mexico, Bay of Campeche