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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
The other oil tanker accidents from Africa really underline the fact that these things just happen there and it's smaller news then, say, the BP spill.
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Mostly because there not US ships off the US coast.
What was that huge leak in the Gulf a few years ago... Ixtoc or something like that. Was a pretty big leak compared to the Horizon yet little was said about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill