In 1996, the Sea Empress supertanker ran aground and dumped 70,000 tonnes of oil on the South Wales coast - twice as much oil as Exxon Valdez, and one of the top ten spills in history. By chance, marine laboratories have been studying this particular coastline for 50 years, waiting to test ideas about environmental catastrophe. Filmed over the course of a year, with unparalleled access to the scientists, Horizon finds out if oil spills are really the ecological disasters we have come to dread, or just a small price to pay for driving cars
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