Thursday, April 27, 2006

Calmy Weather

Mr. FishTaxi gets the credit for this picture of Prince William Sound on Valdez Bay, off of Gold Creek, practicing oil spill disasters.

When the Exxon Valdez hit the chartered rock Bligh Reef (named by Captain Cook after his navigator William Bligh) in the early spring of 1989 the oil never spilled into Valdez Bay. It didn't follow the tanker traffic purple lane to London either.

It was ironic that the super tanker that spilled a 11 million barrels of Alaska crude into Prince William Sound was named the Exxon Valdez. Did you know that the infamous tanker went on to bigger and better things? Renamed the Medditteranean Sea sails the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Never allowed in Prince William Sound again.

1 comment:

MrsM said...

Wow, I didn't know that about the Exxon V. That's pretty interesting.

I love that picture by the way.