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Bligh Reef, sometimes known as Bligh Island Reef, [1] is a reef off the coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was the location of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill . [ 2 ] After the incident, 33 US Code § 2733 mandated the operation of an automated navigation light to prevent future collisions with the reef. [ 3 ]
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 a.m.
Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea. On 24 March 1989, while owned by the former Exxon Shipping Company, captained by Joseph Hazelwood and First Mate James Kunkel, [3] and bound for Long Beach, California, the vessel ran aground on the Bligh Reef, resulting in the second largest oil ...
Bligh Island is an island located in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This island – or more precisely, the neighboring Bligh Reef – was the location of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. [1] The island was named after William Bligh, of future HMS Bounty fame, who served as Master aboard ship during James Cook's third world voyage.
Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood (September 24, 1946 – c. July 22, 2022) was an American sailor.He was the captain of Exxon Valdez during her 1989 oil spill.He was accused of being intoxicated which contributed to the disaster, but was cleared of this charge at his 1990 trial after witnesses testified that he was sober around the time of the accident.
Bligh Reef, a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, named after William Bligh Bligh Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, named after William Bligh Bligh Cap, former name of Rendez-Vous Islet ( (in French) Îlot du Rendez-Vous ), an islet in the North-West of the Kerguelen Islands
Bligh Reef; C. Cozian Reef; T. Three Brothers (islands), Alaska; V. Vanderbilt Reef This page was last edited on 22 December 2017, at 22:11 (UTC). Text is ...
SS Olympia was a steamship that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush.She was wrecked in 1910. Olympia was laid down as SS Doune Castle but launched as SS Dunbar Castle in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Castle Mail Packet Company.