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San Francisco Bay Becoming an Oil Slick
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USA Today
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April 1, 2008
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ECOLOGY
Imagine if someone put a superhighway through Yosemite National Park. That is exactly what is happening just outside California's Golden Gate, asserts Robert Ovetz, executive director of Seaflow: Protect Our Living Oceans, Sausalito, Calif. "Our Yosemites on the sea are being used as on-ramps to the global economy and, as long as this continues, we can expect more and worse Cosco Busan spills."
(On Nov. 7, 2007, in a heavy fog, the 900-foot container ship Cosco Busan struck the tower supporting the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, resulting in a 200-foot-long tear to the port side of the ship that ripped open several fuel tanks, which then spilled 58,000 gallons ...
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