Exxon Valdez
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez (top) ran aground on a reef after leaving the Port of Valdez in the upper part of Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The tanker was carrying about 53 million gallons of crude oil, of which about 11 million spilled within just a few days. Teams work to clean a beach fouled by oil (middle). Pooled oil from the spill is shown in rocks along the shoreline (bottom).
To learn more about the Exxon Valdez spill, visit Spotlight on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, the Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offical page of links to more Exxon Valdez-related information at there website.
Images from the Collections of the Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/photos/ships/ships.html 1) exval, 2) sediment, and 3) oilpool2
