30 Years after the Exxon Valdez Disaster: The Coast Guard's Environmental Protection Mission

摘要

Thirty years ago on Good Friday, 24 March 1989, the 987-foot tanker Exxon Valdez steamed into a reef at twelve knots, opening eight of her ten oil storage tanks to the pristine waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. The resulting spill of 15 million gallons of crude oil would be the largest discharge of oil in US waters until the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.