Recent San Francisco Bay Area storms seem to be churning up more of the oil that spilled from the Cosco Busan two months ago. According to news reports, the Coast Guard sent clean-up teams to several beaches along the East Bay shoreline of San Francisco Bay today. Apparently oil was spotted in the Emeryville area this week.
So far, the Coast Guard says they have recovered about 30 percent of the 58,000 gallons that spilled into the bay on November 7, 2007. The spill happened after the Cosco Busan container ship struck the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge in heavy fog while heading out of the bay.
Over 2,500 birds died from the spill. Another 400 were saved and cleaned and then released back into the wild.