On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, went aground off the coast of Brittany. Over the following days and weeks its entire 68 million gallons of oil drained into the sea. A NOVA production team began filmming at the scene shortly after the disaster, the biggest oil spill in history, and recorded clean-up efforts, effects of the spill on the crucial tourism and fishing industries, and the attempts of US and French marine biologists to trace the passage of the oil through the environment.

NOVA Season 6 Episodes...

• s06e01 - Black Tide
• s06e02 - Long Walk Of Fred Young
• s06e03 - A World Of Difference
• s06e04 - Cashing In On The Ocean
• s06e05 - Patterns From The Past
• s06e06 - The Invisible Flame
• s06e07 - The End Of The Rainbow
• s06e08 - The Beersheva Experiment
• s06e09 - Einstein
• s06e10 - The Keys Of Paradise

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.