On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, a massive oil tanker ran aground in one of the most pristine marine environments in North America. Within hours, black crude oil was spreading across the icy ...

On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill ...

The Exxon Valdez grounding wasn't just one mistake but a cascade of small failures that lined up at exactly the wrong moment.

The Exxon Valdez ran into a reef on Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It caused a massive crude oil spill, estimated to be around 11 million gallons. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker grounded on Bligh Reef and over 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the pristine waters of Alaska’s Prince William Sound and beyond. Seattle ...

PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, Alaska (WCSC) — The nation’s largest tanker oil spill took place in Prince William Sound, Alaska on March 24, 1989. The Exxon Valdez was carrying more than 1.2 million barrels of ...

A sheen of oil spreads into Prince William Sound from the grounded Exxon Valdez tanker on March 24, 1989. In the decades since the spill, which was the nation's worst until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

Thirty-seven years ago the Exxon Valdez tanker grounded in Prince William Sound and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in what was for decades the nation’s worst oil spill. Now, state ...