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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.
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 ...
The first was the crash of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. ... The Exxon Valdez incident ignited a fervent obsession with safety and risk, Coll reports ...
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.
He helmed the Exxon Valdez tanker when it ran aground off of Alaska in one of the worst oil disasters in history. Exxon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood dies at age 75 Skip to main content
March 24, 1989 – The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska. December 31, 2012 – Offshore drilling rig breaks loose from tow, 18 evacuated [2] 2016–2017 Cook Inlet natural gas leak; April 14, 2017 - A BP well leaked oil & gas from the North Slope for 3 days. [3]
Evan Koehn, a 13-year-old from Hesston, had the experience of a lifetime on Monday when he made two holes-in-one in the same round during a Kansas Junior Golf Tour event at Terradyne Country Club ...
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the second largest in U.S. history, and in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident, the U.S. Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. An initial award of US$5 billion punitive was reduced to $507.5 million by the US Supreme Court in June 2008, [ 59 ] and distributions of this award commenced in 2008.