Disaster Of Bligh Reef

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The collision between the supertanker ship, Exxon Valdez and reef formation Bligh Reef breaks the ship’s hull, spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean, and washed up 1,900 kilometers along the coastline. The spilled oil killed hundreds of thousands of marine mammals, birds, orca whales and thousands of herring fish, extinct Pacific Herring and Pigeon Guillemots species. The oils also adhered thousands of coast rocks and polluting the entire area of Bligh Reef in decades. Simply said, the disaster ‘vanished’ almost of the entire ecosystem in Prince William Sounds at the moment and it spent decades to recover. The government reacted on this disaster by charging Exxon Mobil oil company to pay millions of dollars to compensate the

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