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San Francisco's Bay Bridge oil spill has harmed wildlife all over the Bay Area
The aftermath of the Cosco Busan allision with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge yesterday is causing more and more problems today. Spilled bunker fuel has now killed animals in San Francisco. Some seals, diving ducks and other wildlife appear to be O.K., but they could be coated with lighter-weight petroleum. You can't see it, but it's deadly enough anyway.
See what we are dealing with on the closed beaches of S.F., after the jump.
We got your petroleum globules right here:
Imagine peanut butter mixed in with tar and used motor oil - that's what this stuff feels like. It won't come off easily. Not without a lot of work.
Good luck, animals.
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reminds me of a lesson i learned from the brilliant zack morris.
do you remember that episode? oil is discovered under bayside high and these developers come in to try to convince the students/mr. belding to allow them to start drilling. after a great dream sequence of how bayside could be transformed by the money, there is an oil spill and a duck from the pond that's suddenly on campus that zack had been feeding gets covered in oil.
zack convinces the school not to allow the drilling in an impassioned plea, complete with a 3-d model to demonstrate how ugly the ugly drilling platforms are and a little squirt bottle of oil which he sprays all over the model and, of course, the tie of the oil rep.
classic! trust zack, he knows. oil spills are bad for duckies.
Just awful. Plain and simple.
Ugh. Perhaps it is time to ban ships bearing bunker fuel in the bay? It's bad for the atmosphere when they burn that shit anyway. Perhaps they could offload the bunker fuel and refuel with light oil at an offshore terminal?
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i'd like to hear from the asshole that piloted this ship. where is he?
a friend of mine who surfs knows someone that went to the press conference, here is the email they sent, not really sure how factual this is but it implies there's some drama..
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Details as of the 3:00pm press conference:
-58,000 gallons spilled - 9,000 recovered. -Contracted remediation company
-Impact determined by Lt. Hunter USGC, North of Stinson and south of Ocean Beach.
-Minutes after the impact with the Delta tower of the Bay Bridge, the pilot reported a 140 gallon spill, not to alert the USCG, once removed from the ship by the local Pilot company, the real numbers were released. Fourteen crew members were tested for drugs and Alcohol once the USCG arrived. Here is the kicker: The Pilot at the time of the collision, was not tested for Alcohol until late this morning, more then 26 hours after the accident!
He has been with the pilot company for more then 20 years, too many friends :)
let's [obscene gerund] hang him!!!!!
channel 2 just said 60 year old john cota, the pilot, has been involved in 4 incidents before this, all investigated as having been attributed to pilot error. just last year he grounded a ship in san pablo bay.
I agree with fiascorodriguez. i wish i weren't at school right now so i could help out. i know that everyone wants to point figures right now, but i think the best thing to do is to put on our galoshes and pitch in for those who cant fight. this has got to be a serious rescue mission.
remember when the aircraft carrier ran aground in the bay? like 15 years or so ago. the captain was fired. the navy don't like it when you wreck the ship.
O.K. so it was 1983 and the captain didn't get fired. but everything else i said was true.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923599,00.html
Suddenly Captain Robert J. Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water.
For more than five hours, the huge flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay. The 3,500-man crew could only stare across the short, unbridgeable distance to some 3,000 friends and relatives waiting in frustration at Alameda Naval Air Station, the carrier's home port.