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Yucatan peninsula, a 5-hour drove if you were to drive from cozumel, if you come out for tourist reasons. we have a map, and if you look at t. this is massive, people here say this is the forgotten spill from 1979, 30 years ago, but it coasted almost the entire gulf coastline of mexico and even up to 160 miles of the texas coast. we went back through, using some of our affiliates in techs and other people we met and found video and reports from the tile and you can see that some of the video, even though it's old and grainy is similar to the pictures we're seeing out of the gulf in the bp spil...

Largest oil spill in history in the united states. but it not -- certainly not the first big one in the region. more than three decades ago there was another major oil disaster in the gulf. and some of the similarities really are striking. adam housley with the story streaming live tonight from campeche, mexico, adam. >> you are right. the blow out between bp and this one 30 years ago almost exactly the same. blanketed the entire gulf coast of mexico and into texas. locals here worry that the bp spill is not capped with the changing winds and trade winds coming this fall the oil could come bac...