The Exxon Valdex Story
How to assess blame in such a horrible and heinous tragedy as the Exxon Valdez crash is not an easy task. There are multiple recipients and no one will ever really agree. It isn't much of a stretch to say that there will never really be a right or wrong answer as to who is the most responsible-there are many different opinions. I think that the one thing people can agree on, though, is that blame is well beyond warranted. The margin for human error didn't seem very big when the ship set out that night-this was a run that had been done over and over again, the captain was well experienced and traffic control was watching them on radar. Yet, as the story slowly unraveled, the viewer slowly learned that all was not as it seemed. That small margin suddenly seemed huge, and the catastrophe that occurred as a result of it only proved it. The one person whom I am sure deserves top blame in this situation, is the captain of the ship. Joseph Hazelwood was well beyond the legal blood alcohol limit while piloting the tanker. He was given multiple warnings by a shipmate that the ship was coming closer to shore every minute and something should be done. Nothing was. As the viewer later found out
For looking for a scapegoat instead of dealing with the problem at hand. Where was their contingency plan? Why weren't they prepared for this? Alyeska should have been one of the first on the scene, ready for action with their contingency plan. No one is ever really ready for this kind of disaster, but we can be better prepared for it and ready to go when it does. For letting thousands of lives be lost and destroying the last pure region in the U. What was wrong with these people? By the time they really, truly got out there and made an honest effort to fix things, they had already lost the battle; things were too far gone. I hope that all of those involved who contributed to this tragedy or did nothing to help end up paying the price in the long run. Though I do have to say that they did try to get out there and do something about the problems, but were blocked quite a few times by Exxon and their unwillingness to do what was necessary to fix this disaster. They should have helped much more than they did with the cleanup. This was the case for all of the companies, but it is no less worse with Alyeska. Building a pipeline of that size over such a substantial amount of land and sea can only spell catastrophe. Why didn't they notice that the ship was going off their traffic radar? Then when they did, why didn't they do something about it? They should have warned the ship to get back where they could track them. Alyeska thought only of themselves.
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