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  2. Exxon Valdez oil spill - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. File:Exxon Valdez Cleanup.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: U.S. Navy Mechanized Landing Craft (LCMs) are anchored along the shoreline as Navy and civilian personnel position hoses during oil clean-up efforts on Smith island. The massive oil spill occurred when the commercial tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground while transiting the waters of Prince William Sound on March 24th.

  4. Exxon Valdez - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Joseph Hazelwood - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster - Wikipedia

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    On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska.It was the worst oil spill of its time, releasing over 11 million US gallons (260,000 bbl; 42,000 m 3) of crude oil onto the Alaskan shoreline.

  7. Yemeni tanker spill would be four times worse than Exxon ...

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    Up to 1.1 million barrels of oil could spill into the Red Sea causing a disaster four times worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, the United Nations Security Council heard on Wednesday. Time is ...

  8. Barge hits bridge connecting Galveston and Pelican Island ...

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    The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill. The accident ...

  9. Prince William Sound - Wikipedia

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    The Valdez spill is the second largest in US waters, after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in terms of volume released. The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, eventually impacted 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of coastline, of which 200 miles (320 km) were heavily or moderately oiled with an obvious impact.