SF News Pilot Behind Massive SF Bay Oil Spill Fails In Attempt To Regain Mariner's License The Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a federal judge's 2013 decision rejecting a claim made by the pilot behind the massive 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill that his mariner's license had been improperly
SF News Fishermen Awarded $6M For Cosco Busan Spill Around 120 local fishermen will split $3.65 of a $6 million award in damages won though a class action lawsuit against the parties at fault for the horrific 2007 Cosco Busan oil
SF News Cosco Busan Pilot Lawyer Representing iPhone Taker HA! The latest development in the grand scandale that is the Gizmodo G4 iPhone exposé debacle, is that the attorney who represented that Cosco Busan pilot who crashed his boat and dumped all
SF News Go Snowy Plovers! According to a new study, the threatened species of small, white, dune-dwelling birds known as snowy plovers were especially lucky in surviving the major oil spill by the Cosco Busan in San Francisco
SF News I'm Guilty, Says Cosco Busan Pilot Captain John Cota, who helped steer the Cosco Busan into the Oakland Bay Bridge, causing tons of gunk to spill into the San Francisco Bay, pleaded 'guilty' today to two environmental crimes: oil
SF News Pilot Blamed for Cosco Busan Bridge Ram, Fuel Spill The blame for the Cosco Busan spill, that tanker accident that resulted in a huge fuel oil spill last year, seems to rest on the shoulders of the ship's captain pilot, John Cota.
SF News Pilot of the Cosco Busan Charged In Federal Court Although the National Transportation Safety Board has yet to release its report on the causes of last year's crash, today the pilot of the Cosco Busan, John Joseph Cota of Petaluma, was charged
SF News Sewage Spill Dumps 2.7 Million Gallons Into the Bay After an alert system SNAFU failed to notify workers at a Marin County treatment facility about a sewage overflow on Thursday night, the San Francisco Bay is now the proud recipient of 2.
misc SFist Photo: Where Have All the Salmon Gone? Per the rangers at Muir Woods, one Coho made it up Redwood Creek this month. Another Coho tried, but was intercepted and eaten by a hungry river otter. Oh well. Godspeed endangered fishies.
misc Cosco Busan Report Officially Released Also, be sure to check out the illuminating Oil Response Timeline. Happy reading!
misc AP Report: Cosco Busan Pilot on Prescription Drugs During Accident? A lot is going on with the aftermath of our big oil spill. An update is here.
misc Cosco Busan Update: Hearing for Pilot Skedded for April 2. The Incident Specific Preparedness Review team is finally done with its 112-page report regarding the first two weeks of response after the accident. You'll get a chance to read it before Super
misc Larkspur Students Help Out With Oil Spill Cleanup Via Makeovers Oh, those crazy hot-tubbing, wife-swapping, Al Qaeda-loving Marin County folk. It seems that now they're scalping their own children in an effort to tidy up the remaining Cosco Busan oil spill disaster. Students
misc Barge-Bridge Boink Update: Its Name is "Cascade" (Chortle) What a pretty name for a barge, yes? Morning fog, it seems, has temporarily delayed the investigation into yesterday's Richmond-San Rafael Bridge fender bender. Last night, while being guided by tugboats, the Cascade
SF News Barge Hits Richmond-San Rafael Bridge According to the Coast Guard, "a barge has hit the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge" around 6 p.m. this evening. Yikes! The barge, reportedly carrying 63,000 barrels of heavy black oil, hit the
Arts & Entertainment Huge Chunk of the Bay Bridge Floats to Half Moon Bay But you can't just put it back in place because the delta tower has already been fixed. Would some people like this semi-buoyant plastic to be a different color so that it will
misc SFist Photo: The Cosco Busan Hits the Road In the words of SFGate.com, Drive Safely, Cosco Busan. Update: So far, so good. The Coast Guard shows us footage of the cruise out of the bay here.
misc Cosco Busan Gets Final O.K. To Leave San Francisco This isn't the first time the Busan needed repairs after an accident. It had a little run in last year around Humbug, Germany that damaged the aforementioned bow. Brush up on your Deutsch
Arts & Entertainment Don't Forget to Vote in the <i>Bye Bye Busan</i>® Contest! Today is your last chance to enter the contest by submitting a comment with your guess of the date and time the Cosco Busan will eventually sail through the uprights of the Golden
Arts & Entertainment Guess When the Cosco Busan Departs & Win Win Win! Just leave a comment stating the date and time you think the Cosco Busan will pass 'neath the International Orange Gate Bridge and into the deep briny. Only one entry per commenter. Our
Arts & Entertainment Cosco Busan Posts a $79.5 Million Bond, Crew Detained The Busan now has a new master, chief mate and chief engineer for the long journey home, but six of the original crew members will remain in the United States "apparently to assist
SF News Bye-Bye, Cosco Busan! Bon voyag-ee, Cosco Busan! And don't come back! The leaky Cosco Busan ship that contaminated our beautiful bay with oil is expected to get clearance to get the heck outta Frisco, setting sail
misc Meet Your Local San Francisco Bar Pilot Commission Our impressions after the jump, along with the detailed, five-page "accusation" that lays out a theory for the cause of the accident, and hey, is the Cosco Busan really heading back to South
Arts & Entertainment Dennis Herrera Drops the Hammer on the Cosco Busan Getting the Busan ready for the long journey home. Most of the patching job should be done by now. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit this morning against a host of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tour the Ghost Ship of San Francisco Word comes from Telstar Logistics about a recent photo tour aboard a vintage cruise ship that's been sitting around unused for years. Check out the provenance of the SS Independence here and of
