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The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Episode 1
Exxon Valdez captain Joe Hazelwood was on board because of his exceptional skills as a sailor. He started drinking heavily when he went to study at an elite New York Maritime College but dropped out after two-thirds of its students dropped out. The man who would receive the bulk of the blame for the disaster has never been able to get back into work with Exxon. This is the first episode in our four-part series on the Exxon Valdez oil spill the accident It's April 1985 four years before the Exxon Valdaz disaster in a bar on Long Island, New York.