History's 10 worst oil disasters

POSTED: 09:17 AM PDT Apr 12, 2012    UPDATED: 10:37 AM PST Feb 25, 2013 

As BP's Gulf oil spill trial begins, take a look back at history's worst oil disasters.

Atlantic Empress oil spill 1979
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4. Atlantic Empress/Aegean Captain (90 million gallons) -- On July 19, 1979, two gigantic supertankers collided off the Caribbean island of Little Tobago during a tropical rainstorm. The accident killed 26 crew members and dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the sea.

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