Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989. The accident, as noted by the Exxon Valdez ...

The oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on this day in 1989, causing a massive oil spill. Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever' star ...

struck Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef, 6 mi west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 a.m. The tanker spilled more than 10 million US gallons of crude oil over the next few days.

Congress authorized the construction of the 800-mi/1,287-km Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline with its southern terminus located in Valdez. On 24 March 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in ...

Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot tanker loaded with 53 million gallons of crude oil, slammed into Alaska’s Bligh Reef just after midnight on March 24, 1989. The accident, as noted by the Exxon Valdez Oil ...