Twenty-Five years ago the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled its guts across Alaska’s shorelin
Crews use high pressured hoses to blast the rocks on this beach front on Naked Island, Alaska, April 21, 1989. On April 2, 1989 workers hopelessly try to remove globs of oil from Baked Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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A quarter-century ago, after the Exxon Valdez’s captain downed one too many drinks and left a third mate in charge, the oil tanker struck a reef and bled 11 million gallons of oil across 1,300 miles of Alaska’s coastline. But the catastrophic oil spills have continued in the US—and we’re still not prepared to handle them.
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