exxon valdez
On March 24, 1989 at 4 minutes past midnight, the oil tanker ExxonValdez struck a reef in Alaska's breath-taking Prince William Sound. Instantaneously, the quiet waters of the sound became a sea of black. "We've fetched up - ah - hard aground north of Goose Island off Bligh Reef, and - ah - evidently leaking some oil," Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the ship, radioed the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office back in Valdez. That "some oil" turned out to be a total of 11,000,000 gallons of crude oil leaking from the ruptured hull of the ship. By the time a containment effort was put forth, a weather storm had helped to spread the oil as much as three feet thick across 1,400 miles of beaches.A little over ten years have passed since the largest oil spill and the greatest environmental disaster in American history, but the waters and its surroundings are still recovering. At first, many people repeated what was then thought as common knowledge, "oil dissipates, nature heals quickly, all will be well in a year or two." This has not been the case with the Exxon Valdez. This massive 987-foot tanker has left a lingering, long-term effect on the natural habitat that surrounds these pristine waters, along with an enormou
Preventing Another Monster Oil Slick. As some fish and seal species continue to struggle 10 years after the spill, so do the people who depend on them (Knickerbocker 1999). Some of the wildlife have made a full recovery, and coupled with the fact that some have almost fully recovered, the ecology of sound could reach its pre-oil spill level. Up to this point, the oil has contaminated a national forest, four wildlife refuges, three national parks, five state parks, four "critical habitat areas" and a state game sanctuary, which spreads along 1,400 miles of the Alaskan shoreline. Along with the OPA of 1990, the Exxon Valdez is also responsible for the creation of two Regional Citizen's Advisory Councils, one, which operates from Cook Inlet and the other from Prince William Sound. None of these events would have occurred, had it not been for that fateful oil spill. s socio-economic effect that has left many people wondering when and where the next oil spill will be. Even though the Exxon Valdez is the most-studied oil spill in world history, it is also a particularly difficult one to research because of the lack of baseline data on the ecology of Prince William Sound (Birkland 1998). Recent scientific studies show that the oil continues to wreak havoc among many spawning salmon, herring, and other species of fish. Preventing Another Monster Oil Slick.
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