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Exxon in Crisis | The Accident | 1

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The Exxon Valdez had arrived in port in Alaska on the evening of March 22nd 1989. Captain Joe Hazelwood and his crew were given little time to recuperate after a rough passage from California. The tanker was scheduled to depart on their return journey fully loaded with oil less than 100 times its carrying capacity. It was company policy for captains to remain on bridge until the tanker cleared Prince William sound when heavy ice ahead blocked their planned course. In the moment captain Joe felt the best use of his time was to catch up on paperwork because as captain Joe always had too much to do Tanker crews worked on tight schedules.

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