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Exxon Valdez

**What was the disaster? When was it? Where was it?** On March 24, 1989 the tanker Exxon Valdez. en route to from Alaska to Los Angeles California ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The vessel was travelling outside normal shipping lanes in an attempt to avoidance. Within six hours of the grounding, the Exxon Valdez spilled approximately 10.9 million gallons of its 53 million gallon cargo of Prudhoe Bay crude oil. Eight of the eleven tanks on board were damaged. The oil would eventually impact over 1,100 miles of coastline in Alaska making the Exxon Valdez the largest oil spill to date in U.S waters.

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