so we close the Port of San Francisco permanently!
This link has a list of articles and pix.
This really is an ecological disaster that will take years to recover from.
The answer is obvious isn't it?
There was a thread or two about the collision, but not that this was a massive oil spill.
so we close the Port of San Francisco permanently!But so far as may be determined, no extinctions resulted from this oil spill.....
Is anyone sure whether this oil slick came from a tanker, or an eruption from the ocean floor that was released from an untapped oil reservoir, because the pressure was not relieved by drilling and pumping the crude out?
More information here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/09/MNIOT9411.DTL
It says that the pilot has had four previous accidents.
Also, more information about ownership of the ship in question:
The Cosco Busan has had two names and has sailed under at least two flags since it went into service in 2001.
An experienced San Francisco admiralty lawyer, who did not want to be named because he has many clients in the shipping world, said ships and their owners and operators sometimes cloak themselves with dizzying layers of paperwork “to avoid liability. If you can’t find who owns it,” it is more difficult to file a lawsuit.
Hanjin Shipping, which is chartering the Cosco Busan, said in an e-mail Wednesday that the vessel is owned by a company it identified variously as Synergy Maritime Ltd. or Synergy Marine Ltd., of Cyprus.
Raajeev Singh, technical manager for Synergy, said the ship was run by a ship management agency in Hong Kong, whose name he did not provide.
A woman who answered the phone at Synergy in Cyprus referred queries to Darrell Wilson, a spokesman for MTI Network in Stamford, Conn., which handles “crisis management” for the shipping industry.
Wilson said the ship is owned by Regal Stone Ltd. of Hong Kong, managed by Fleet Management Ltd. of Hong Kong, and its crew and technical support are provided by Synergy Management Services.
I'm curious, during WW 2 there were literally hundreds of tankers sunk or damaged including quite a few off the U.S. coast. Granted these tankers were quite a bit smaller than the supertankers of today but I don't recall hearing too much about fouled beaches or dead wildlife during the war. Can someone please explain this to me?
Maybe they can call the Marines for some clean-up help...
Nuclear power!
I went to Crissy Field on Sunday Nov 4th. It was warm, sunny, gorgeous. I’ve never seen it so packed. There were sailboarders, joggers, parents with babies, dogs chasing frisbees - one of the last days of Indian summer. And all with the spectacular backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge. And now they won’t even let you in the parking lot at Crissy Field.
This happens way too often.....I can see why they don’t want this on the FLorida beaches now too.....
Are we sure its not just a spilled shipment of the stuff they use during their street fairs?
It’s not the drilling that is the pollution risk, it’s always the ships and barges. And how do they move oil into Florida power plants? Not from offshore wells and undersea pipelines, nope we use barges and ships.
And what goes by the Florida Keys almost hourly, in and out of the Gulf of Mexico, oil tankers.
Who knew.
There'll be sticky tar balls washing up for quite a while, but I'd submit that since it is bunker C it could have been worse. Bunker C is a little easier to clean up in that it doesn't tend to penetrate the sediments or sandy beaches. It sits on top in tarballs or tarmats and can be picked up much more easily than say, crude oil.
It’s the San Francisco area, no one cares.
Best way to avoid these tanker oil spills...
Pump more of our own oil and deliver it by pipeline, no?
You know, drill a well save a beach.
Think it’ll sell?