Nov 02 2009
Yup. Another spill.
Almost too mundane to blog:
Tanker spills oil into San Francisco Bay
A mechanical failure during the fueling of a tanker caused an oil spill Friday morning, leaving a two-mile slick south of the Bay Bridge and evoking memories of a much larger spill two years ago.
The spill was reported to the Coast Guard at 6:48 a.m. in an area about 2.5 miles south of the bridge near Anchorage Nine. Crews responded immediately, but it took more than three hours before booms were deployed to contain the spill.
The Panama-flagged Dubai Star, an approximately 600-foot tanker carrying jet fuel, was taking bunker fuel from a barge when an “unknown amount” of fuel spilled onto the deck and then the water.
The next day, the Coast Guard was all over the place, deploying booms. Which, if you read the article, sounds like they weren’t necessary…? I dunno. I just know that I can’t even get all worked up any more. The Bay is so abused…
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The coast guard said they didn’t want to wait for an estimate on the size of the spill before they did something about it. They deployed as though it was a large spill just in case, which I can’t help but be pleased about. I would much rather they overdid their clean up then under did it.
Yeah, but yesterday they were booming over in our little backbay here… which, if they’d boomed the spill the day before, was completely unnecessary. A lot of people around here were scratching their heads, but we decided they were practicing.
They are still doing stuff on this end of the Bay