Volunteers install floating booms and fi

Volunteers install floating booms and fishing nets to prevent oil slick, on April 18, 1967 on the beach of Perros-Guirec as the Torrey Canyon disaster is coming on the coast of French Britanny. On 18 March 1967, owing to a navigational error, the Torrey Canyon struck Pollard's Rock in the Seven Stones reef between the Isles of Scilly and Land's End, Cornwall, causing major environmental damage on the Cornish and French coasts. Around 120,000 tons of crude oil which spilled out, killing about 200,000 birds and facing ruin to the holiday industry. (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)