Image Source: San Francisco Chronicle
My plans to surf at Ocean Beach today were drowned, or rather coated in oil, when I heard about the 58,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled by a container ship when it grazed the Bay Bridge yesterday.
Reports have big slicks moving north along the Marin coastline, rather than south toward my usual haunts, but Ocean Beach is close enough to the Golden Gate that the likelihood of swimming through big gobs of black goo is high.
The Hanjin container ship is docked in San Francisco and its shipments to South Korea will be delayed. Small inconvenience compared to those now being suffered by the seals, grebes and scoters along the shoreline that may pay with their lives.
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