It was early morning March 24, 1989, an oil tanker the Exxon Valdez was en route from the Valdez oil terminal through Prince William Sound. The captain, Joseph Hazelwood radioed in to say he was changing course. He did this in order to avoid small icebergs. He received permission to move to the northbound lane. Now the Captain had been prior known to have had a drinking problem. He told his third mate Gregory Cousins, to begin …showed first 75 words of 1012 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1012 total…to being cleaned up. I think that all these new ideas that people are coming up with now are going to make the restoration of this area go along much quicker. Many of the species that were once nearly killed are already now being restored to their original population. Also the procedure of bioremediation, although only experimental for the most part, has been shown to be effective already through preliminary testing in the Alaskan region.