Photos of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

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  • <em>Exxon Valdez</em> tanker leaking oil.
  • <em>Exxon Valdez</em> tanker aground. Off-loading of remaining oil in progress.
  • Oiled loon on shore.
  • Oiled sea otter on shore.
  • Dead murrelet.
  • Bald eagle in rehabilitation.
  • Aerial of a maxi-barge with water tanks and spill workers hosing a beach, Prince William Sound.
  • Dead oiled sea otter on the shore.
  • Valdez based seafood processors picket Exxon's Headquarters protesting a shortage of work due to the <em>Exxon Valdez</em> oil spill, Valdez.
  • Oiled seabird.
  • Joe Bridgman, Information Officer for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, discovers subsurface oil from seemingly clean beach, Meares Point, Perry Island (Prince William Sound).
  • Omni-boom, with worker supervision, blasts oil coated rocks in an attempt to clean gross oil contamination from beach, LaTouche Island (Prince William Sound).
  • Spill worker with respirator hoses beach during Corexit application test - Quayle Beach, Smith Island (Prince William Sound).
  • Beach Cleanup workers in oil splattered raingear use pom-poms to clean beach from gross oil contamination, LaTouche Island (Prince William Sound).
  • Aerial of a maxi-barge and spill workers cleaning beach during Corexit testing, large oil sheen escapement, Quayle Beach, Smith Island (Prince William Sound).
  • Oiled eagle on the shore following the <i>Exxon Valdez</i> oil spill.
  • Shoreline rocks coated in fresh oil from the <em>Exxon Valdez</em>.
  • Oiled crow in the hands of a rescue worker.
  • Oiled cormorant on a rocky oil-covered shore.
  • An oily sheen covers the surface of an intertidal habitat with aquatic plants (<em>Fucus sp.</em>) following the <em>Exxon Valdez</em> oil spill.
  • An oiled gull stands at the bow of a boat looking out over the oiled ocean.
  • A line of clean-up workers hose down a rocky shore with hot water.
  • Clean-up workers spray oiled rocks with high pressure hoses.
  • Clean-up workers spray oiled rocks with high pressure hoses.