... detrimental effects. The Exxon Valdez tanker was loaded with 40 million gallons (952,000 barrels) of oil in Valdez from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. The captain of the ship, Captain Joseph Hazelwood, came on board after having drinks with a friend at the port. Once the ship was filled they wasted no time and began their journey to the refineries in Long ... Valdez and crude oil began spilling into the sea. Knowing what was happening, Captain Hazelwood made a bad decision and tried to use the ship's engines to force the tanker forward across the reef. This only caused the rocks to dive dee...

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... detrimental effects. The Exxon Valdez tanker was loaded with 40 million gallons (952,000 barrels) of oil in Valdez from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. The captain of the ship, Captain Joseph Hazelwood, came on board after having drinks with a friend at the port. Once the ship was filled they wasted no time and began their journey to the refineries in Long ... Valdez and crude oil began spilling into the sea. Knowing what was happening, Captain Hazelwood made a bad decision and tried to use the ship's engines to force the tanker forward across the reef. This only caused the rocks to dive dee...

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... leaked from the ruptured hull of the ship. By the time a containment effort was put forth, a weather storm had helped to spread the oil as much as three feet thick across 1400 miles of beaches. More then ten years have passed since the largest oil spill and the greatest environmental disaster in American history, but the waters and its surroundings are ... , Exxon had paid nearly $2.1 billion on clean up and another $1 billion in damages to Alaska and the United States in the form of civil and criminal fines. Also the captain, Joseph Hazelwood, was also charged with, but later acquitted ...

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