Some of the worst coastal oil spills in the last few decades have included the Torrey Canyon that spilled 119 000 tonnes of oil off the Cornish coast in 1967, the Amoco Cadiz, which spilled 230 000 tonnes off the coast of Brittany in 1978, and the Braer, which spilled 84 000 tonnes off the Shetland Islands in 1993. The Prestige, which sank off the Galician coast in 2002, was carrying 77 000 tonnes of oil.