Hippie Staff
11-11-2007, 04:56 PM
If you're going for a visit..skip the local shellfish (bleck)
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Clean-up efforts for a 58,000-gallon (220,000-liter) oil spill in San Francisco Bay expanded on Sunday as federal officials assessed damage that has closed beaches, threatened the crabbing season and killed scores of birds.
The Cosco Busan container ship struck a tower of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday in fog, slashing a nearly 100 foot gash that allowed bunker fuel to spill.
"Based on the Coast Guard's preliminary investigation, there appears there was nothing mechanically wrong with the vessel," said Petty Officer Mariana O'Leary, who stopped short of saying human error was responsible.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0822954120071112
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Clean-up efforts for a 58,000-gallon (220,000-liter) oil spill in San Francisco Bay expanded on Sunday as federal officials assessed damage that has closed beaches, threatened the crabbing season and killed scores of birds.
The Cosco Busan container ship struck a tower of the Bay Bridge on Wednesday in fog, slashing a nearly 100 foot gash that allowed bunker fuel to spill.
"Based on the Coast Guard's preliminary investigation, there appears there was nothing mechanically wrong with the vessel," said Petty Officer Mariana O'Leary, who stopped short of saying human error was responsible.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0822954120071112