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A small little podcast where your hosts, Kara and Ed, look at historical and not so historical cases where we don't celebrate humanity's success but its most fantastic failures. There are always lessons to be learned in failure and humanity has run amuck with fool proof plans that immediately go sideways and fall apart shortly after executing those plans. Join us as we scour the "human-verse" in search for the most poignant, and often hilarious, failures and try to pull out what can be learned from these failures.

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Episode 27. First Oil Spill Disaster Fire

March 24, 2024 • Ed and Kara

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Hey everyone!

In this episode, Ed makes everyone feel better about themselves by talking about the first ever massive oil tanker crash / spill in history. Yes that is correct in that we're talking about the Torrey Canyon oil tanker tanker that was supposed to be the pinnacle of technology for the day. This ship was also expanded to twice its size only to run aground off the Southwest coast of Great Britain in the early 1960's.

So join us in this epic retelling of one of the most awkward moments in human history where one nation had to call another nation and say, "Hey, um, we got a slight issue that might, if not most likely will affect your coastlines..."

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