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Nov. 9th, 2007 07:11 amWhat's up?
They spilled a bunch a oil in San Francisco Bay. A Hanjin container vessel hit the Delta Pylon of the Golden Gate Bridge, it ruptured its ballast tanks, and out came the oil, which the container vessel was using for ballast. This isn't refined oil, it's nasty stuff, low-grade bunker oil, about the same viscocity as the skin on top of pudding. Baker Beach, Crissy Field, all the beaches along the Presidio, are all closed and covered with oil. The coast guard played it down on Wednesday, saying that 140 to 500 gallons of oil had spilled, but by Thursday the story had changed, since it was impossible to hide the fact that much more oil was in the water.
The actual amount of the spill is estimated to be 58,000 gallons. (They can only estimate, because in order to tell how much there is, they have to heat the oil that remains in the ship and pump it into another tank, where it can be measured.)
They've recovered about a fifth of what they spilled.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7414045?nclick_check=1
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7413595
This is making me very depressed, because one of the things to love about San Francisco is it's urban ecosystem, and the marine life around the bay plays a big part in that, and now it's all covered in a very nasty, very toxic sludge.
They spilled a bunch a oil in San Francisco Bay. A Hanjin container vessel hit the Delta Pylon of the Golden Gate Bridge, it ruptured its ballast tanks, and out came the oil, which the container vessel was using for ballast. This isn't refined oil, it's nasty stuff, low-grade bunker oil, about the same viscocity as the skin on top of pudding. Baker Beach, Crissy Field, all the beaches along the Presidio, are all closed and covered with oil. The coast guard played it down on Wednesday, saying that 140 to 500 gallons of oil had spilled, but by Thursday the story had changed, since it was impossible to hide the fact that much more oil was in the water.
The actual amount of the spill is estimated to be 58,000 gallons. (They can only estimate, because in order to tell how much there is, they have to heat the oil that remains in the ship and pump it into another tank, where it can be measured.)
They've recovered about a fifth of what they spilled.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7414045?nclick_check=1
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7413595
This is making me very depressed, because one of the things to love about San Francisco is it's urban ecosystem, and the marine life around the bay plays a big part in that, and now it's all covered in a very nasty, very toxic sludge.
