Tarzan Torrey Canyon Traditional Cache
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This should be a straight forward find near to the Torrey Canyon Oil quarry.
Cache is a small clip lock container housing the usual Notepad and Pencil and some small tradeable items
There is also a bulldog trackable to carry on its journey.
Remember, trade up or trade equal or don’t trade at all.
Happy hunting … may the force be with you
There is also a rope swing here for the young or young at heart to try out.
The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster. At that time, the tanker was the largest vessel ever to be wrecked.
Detergent was used by Cornwall fire brigade and attending Royal Navy vessels in an attempt to disperse the oil. However, the ship had started to break up and UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his cabinet held a mini cabinet meeting at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose and decided to set fire to the remaining oil to avoid the oil disaster getting worse.
On 28 March 1967, the Fleet Air Arm sent Blackburn Buccaneer planes from the Naval Air Station at Lossiemouth to drop forty-two 1,000 lb bombs on the ship. Then, the Royal Air Force sent Hawker Hunter jets to drop cans of aviation fuel to make the oil blaze. However, exceptionally high tides put the fire out and it took further attacks by Sea Vixens from the Naval Air Station at Yeovilton and Buccaneers from the Naval Air Station at Brawdy, as well as more RAF Hunters with napalm to ignite the oil. Attempts to use foam booms to contain the oil were of limited success due to their fragility in high seas.
Around 15,000 sea birds were killed, along with huge numbers of marine organisms, before the 270 square miles (700 km2) slick dispersed. Much damage was caused by the heavy use of so-called detergents to break up the slick - these were first-generation variants of products originally formulated to clean surfaces in ships' engine-rooms, with no concern over the toxicity of their components, and many observers believed that they were officially referred to as 'detergents', rather than the more accurate 'solvent-emulsifiers', to encourage comparison with much more benign domestic cleaning products.
The UK government was strongly criticised for its handling of the incident, which was at that time the costliest shipping disaster ever. The RAF and the Royal Navy also came in for ridicule, as 25% of the 42 bombs dropped missed the enormous stationary target.
In Guernsey oil was collected from beaches using Sewage lorries and dumped in the Chouet quarry where until recently it has lain untreated. There has been some recent efforts to recycle the oil and you can see how the level has dropped by the black “tidemark” on the side of the quarry.
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