The Exxon Valdez
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The Exxon Valdez, a tanker carrying oil from the Trans Alaska Pipeline, encountered icebergs in the shipping lanes after passing through the Valdez Narrows and so the Captain ordered the ship to go out of the shipping lanes to go around them (Questions, 2005). Control was then handed back to the helmsman, with orders to reenter the shipping lanes at a certain point, but for reasons still unclear, the ship failed to make the turn back into shipping lanes and ran aground on Bligh Reef at 12.04 am on March 24, 1989. Approximately 11 million gallons of oil were spilled, one of the largest ever spills in the United States and widely considered the number one spill in terms of the environmental damage it caused. The remoteness of the spill and its location along thousands of miles of rugged shoreline, coupled with the abundance of wildlife in the area, made the environmental disaster so great. Roughly 1,300 miles of shoreline were affected by the oil spill, 200 miles being heavily or modera
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