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Three USC
By LESLIE BATES
Gamecock Staff Writer
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spill occurring March 17 when the
American tanker Amoco Cadiz
wrecked off the coast of Brittany.
Dr. Miles Hayes, head of the
Coastal Research Division of the
geology department, departed
March 25 to join graduate students
Erich Gundlach and Craig Shipp in
a study of what the New York
Times called the "world's worst oil
spill" in history. The USC
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The USC team went to France as
members of the Spilled Oil
Research team, a group funded
and developed by the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration, according to Ian
Fischer, graduate research
assistant in geology.
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THE SOR TEAM is composed
of biologists and oceanographers
from different universities and'
consulting agencies all over the
country," Fischer said. "Their
goal is to go and study all these oil
spills and see how they apply to the
United States."
After studying a coastline,
Fischer said, the SOR team can
recommend the best method for
cleaning up an oil spill. "They can
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The USC team uses a
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study coastal areas, Fischer said.
"We've developed a predictive
scheme classifications system,
where you can look at the beach,
see whether it's gravel or sand,
and say whether the oil's going to
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WITH THE system the USC
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The USC team developed the
system from studies of two oil
spills, one in Chile in 1974 and one
in Spain in 1976, Fischer said.
Although they went to Chile two
years after the 50,000 ton spill
occurred, "there were still areas
that were over a meter thick with .
oil."
Fischer said the USC team found
the same problem when they went
to Spain in 1976 to study a 30,000 ton
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were just lying there, like frosting
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Alaskan coastline, Fischer said.
The Alaska program is essentially
the only one in existence
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"WE'VE FOUND very few
people wherever we've gone
who've been prepared for an oil
spill, even in the states. Most
places can handle a few gallons
when something leaks out of the
ship while it's fueling," he said.
In Spain, Fischer said, equipment
to clean up the oil spill had to
be flown in from England and
Holland, although the accident
occurred in a major oil port.
"The English Channel is also a
big oil port for Europe, and very
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"A lot of people don't open their
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The USC team hopes to classify a
variety of shorelines where oil
spills have not yet occurred,
Fischer said.
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tanker routes are and possible sites
where problems could occur."
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