Luckily, our beaches on the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco have been spared most oil pollution from this spill. Birds, fish, beaches and coastal flora in the southern San Francisco Bay bore the brunt of this oil spill and to date cleanup specialists have found dozens of dead birds and rescued dozens more. Save The Waves was twittering live throughout the events of this environmental disaster and our twitter was a source of information for many local citizens at a time when information was extremely scarce.
> Learn here how you can help by donating nylon stockings preparing for oil cleanup efforts at the beach.
On Friday, October 30 at 6:48am the large tanker ship "Dubai Star" spilled fuel into San Francisco Bay from a ruptured fuel transfer hose. The Coast Guard is reporting anywhere from 400 to 1,000 gallons of heavy bunker fuel has spilled.
2pm SATURDAY 10/31: still no sign of oil on Ocean Beach nor China Beach. Frequent updates at twitter.com/savethewaves
7pm FRIDAY 10/30: THIS JUST IN from an unnamed government source about projected path of spilled oil:
"Right now, spill response is being conducted by the USCG but information is limited. We do not have a good figure on the amount of the spill, but much less than the Cosco Busan. They are still trying to calculate a better number. With regards to Ocean Beach, good to prepare, but right now, the projections appear to indicate that OB is not likely to be impacted in the next 24 hours, if the winds remain calm, and easterly. It is likely that Alameda will be the first landfall and when (or if) that occurs, it will likely give a better indication. We don't have any good information past the next 24 hours, as the projections are based on daily wind speed and direction, etc. As you have likely heard, the material was a heavy fuel. While it is a smaller spill than the Cosco Busan of 2007 and it is unclear what the impacts will be, if material sank in the cold water, future currents are likely to dictate where it may appear later."
We're tweeting live about this oil spill at twitter.com/savethewaves
The Oiled Wildlife Care Network is one of the official responders to this oil spill.
IF YOU FIND OILED WILDLIFE PLEASE CALL 877-823-6926
