One year after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill and 3½ years after the destructive Cosco Busan oil spill in San Francisco Bay, local, state and federal officials say they are better prepared to respond to a major oil spill.
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Authorities are trying to find the source of a wide oil slick spotted at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park on Tuesday morning.
The “light rainbow sheen” was called in around 6:30 a.m., U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Laura Williams said.
The sheen “came in on an ebb tide,” she said.
Because it was such a wide sheen, authorities said it was difficult to estimate the amount of pollution. The oil sheen appeared to be evaporating, which is a positive sign, Williams said.
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One man is presumed drowned and a second recovering from hypothermia after their tugboat sank in heavy seas off Ocean Beach Saturday, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.Coast Guard Lt. Andrew Kennedy said the two-man crew of the 43-foot Tugboat Richardson Bay had been on their way to retrieve a lost skiff in Pacifica when the boat began taking on water about a half-mile offshore at about 2 p.m.
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A tugboat captain piloting a 230-foot barge intentionally ran the vessel aground near San Francisco’s St. Francis Yacht Club on Tuesday to prevent it from sinking and possibly causing an environmental disaster, company officials said.
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A surfer was pulled out to sea by the riptide near San Francisco's Ocean Beach and was lost in the water for at least a half-hour Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Although no one aboard a fishing vessel that ran aground off the San Mateo County coast early Tuesday morning was injured, the U.S. Coast Guard is keeping a close eye on the boat to ensure it doesn’t leak fuel and pollute the waters.A 911 call relayed from a San Mateo County emergency dispatcher at about 1 a.m. alerted the Coast Guard to the stranded boat, which ran aground near the shore of Half Moon Bay, Coast Guard Chief Scott Brazier said.
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A young whale that was fighting to break free from fishing line is missing after authorities decided the waters were too treacherous to conduct an immediate rescue Tuesday.
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