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It’s been almost a week since the Cosco Busan began spilling 58,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay. As with any oil spill, the cost to the environment has been devasting with beaches all over the bay covered in oil, the bay itself highly contaminated, and hundreds of birds harmed and killed. But a week later, […]
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On Wednesday November 7, 2007 the Cosco Busan container ship side swiped one of the western anchorages of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The ship leaked bunker fuel oil after a gash was discovered in its port side. The 810-foot vessel was headed out of Oakland and bound for South Korea when it hit the bridge in heavy fog around 8:30 AM. The bridge did not suffer significant damage and traffic continued to flow on the span.
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With 15 years as a tugboat master, Dave Gore is in charge of 18 times the amount of bunker oil that spilled into San Francisco Bay from the wayward Cosco Busan in November. At the helm of Royal Melbourne, he routinely pushes the 21,500-barrel Pebble Beach oil barge to a fuel terminal in Richmond and delivers that fuel to ships up and down the Bay.
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