The second most viewed clip on my YouTube channel in this past year is from the 2009 NOAA video, Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years. After the Exxon Valdez Spill. I was living in Anchorage when on March 23, 1989 the Exxon Valdez an oil supertanker operated by Exxon left the port of Valdez headed for Long beach, CA with almost 54 million gallons of crude oil on board. Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the supertanker collided with Bligh Reef, a well-known navigation hazard, ruptured 8 of its 11 cargo tanks and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine waters of Prince William Sound. The result was catastrophic. Although the spill was radioed in shortly after the collision Exxon’s response was slow. In fact, there was no recovery effort for three days while Exxon searched for cleanup equipment. During that time millions of gallons of oil began to spread down the coast. Days later as the cleanup effort began the oil slick was no longer containable. It eventually extended 470 miles to the southwest, contaminated hundreds of miles of coastline. For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at soundtruth.info/ This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaskas Prince William Sound. For a look at worker health and safety issues during the oil spill cleanup, view the video clip, Worker Safety Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989, on YouTube at youtube/watch?v=fgjo-4UnBF0&feature=channel_page . For a detailed federal government review of worker health and safety issues, read the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report, Alaska Oil Spill Health Hazard Evaluation (HETA 89-200 & 89-273-2111), published in May 1991 and available on the NIOSH website at cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/... The entire film can be viewed and downloaded at oceanservice.noaa.gov/video.html .
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:00:33 +0000
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