Wednesday morning at 8:30 AM, the container ship Cosco Busan collided with one of the piers of the west span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tearing a 160 ft gash into the ship. Throughout Wednesday we were hearing numbers like 140 gallons for the amount of bunker fuel spilled in the bay.
Rob Roberts, a lieutenant with the state Department of Fish and Game, said the 140 gallons of fuel that spilled from the ship will take about a month to clean up. By midday, some fuel had already reached Pier One in San Francisco just north of the Ferry Building.
He said the spill is "something we're worried about."
Hunter added, "One hundred-forty gallons is 140 gallons too much."
Roberts said private companies hired by the ship owner will perform the cleanup.
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Now the truth is coming out. The new estimate is that 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel spilled into the Bay. The Coast Guard is claiming to have 8,000 gallons contained, leaving 50,000 out there.
More after the flip.
An 810-foot-long container ship crashed into the base of a tower of the Bay Bridge's western span in heavy fog Wednesday, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay.
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The U.S. Coast Guard said 8,000 gallons of the fuel had been contained by the evening, and the state Department of Fish and Game's oil spill unit began taking steps to contain and clean up the rest of the spill.
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In the largest oil spill in San Francisco Bay in at least a decade, a 900-foot container ship navigating through heavy fog collided Wednesday with a Bay Bridge abutment, spilling 57,000 gallons, according to preliminary estimates.
Wednesday's collision punctured a fuel tank, allowing heavy duty bunker fuel oil to leak into the Bay, and noxious fumes waft toward San Francisco's financial district.
After reports that oil was washing up on shore, the National Park Service closed five San Francisco beaches - Fort Point, Baker Beach, China Beach, Crissy Field and Kirby Cove, according to the U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Anderson.
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