Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Odyssey, which previously went by the name Oriental Phoenix, was an oil tanker in operation from 1971 to November 10, 1988, when an explosion caused it to sink in the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada. The resulting spill remains one of the largest oil spills in world history. The tanker was 700 nautical miles (1,300 km; 810 mi) off the coast of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia when it sank and released 132,157 tons (43 million gallons) of oil into the ocean. To this day, the spill remains the sixth-largest of all time. By way of comparison, 4.3 times as much oil was spilled by the Odyssey as from the much more famous Exxon Valdez.. }
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- Odyssey_(tanker) abstract "Odyssey, which previously went by the name Oriental Phoenix, was an oil tanker in operation from 1971 to November 10, 1988, when an explosion caused it to sink in the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada. The resulting spill remains one of the largest oil spills in world history. The tanker was 700 nautical miles (1,300 km; 810 mi) off the coast of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia when it sank and released 132,157 tons (43 million gallons) of oil into the ocean. To this day, the spill remains the sixth-largest of all time. By way of comparison, 4.3 times as much oil was spilled by the Odyssey as from the much more famous Exxon Valdez.".