[Mb-civic] Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries

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Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/national/30alaska.html

Old news already, December 8th...  oh well...  more tragic disaster...

(excerpt)

More than 355,000 gallons of fuel oil are now thought to have spilled from 
the freighter Selendang Ayu, which ran aground and split in two just off 
Unalaska Island on Dec. 8.

The 738-foot Selendang Ayu was headed from Seattle to China carrying 
soybeans and about 480,000 gallons of fuel when its engines failed and 
fierce winds thwarted efforts by a rescue tug to keep it from running 
aground. Most members of the crew were saved, but six of them were killed 
when a Coast Guard rescue helicopter crashed into the sea. The bow half of 
the ship has since been tilted precipitously and almost fully submerged by 
gale-force winds.
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I think I figured out why any aliens might ever want to come to Earth (at 
least 1 of the reasons), they don't have videos so they come here and just 
watch us and never have a boring moment ever.  I wonder what the admission 
fee is.......  Our lives maybe..?  Who knows...  Getting flashbacks of 
watching too much Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and Night Of The Living 
Dead.  Regardless of late night ramblings, tragic story, they never seem to 
stop...  I don't know why sometimes...  Where is rewind on this remote........



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