Some 58,000 gallons of heavy-duty bunker oil began gushing into San Francisco Bay last week after a container ship, weighing more than 65 thousand tons, crashed into a tower of the Bay Bridge amid thick fog at 8:30 a.m., November 7.
Many criticize the Coast Guard for being slow to respond to the incident, enabling the oil to spread far and wide within the Bay and out into the Pacific Ocean, areas rich in biodiversity.
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