Tug Pathfinder struck same reef as Exxon Valdez

[Bart Hakze]

The tug Pathfinder (which was put in service to help prevent another oil spill disaster in Prince William Sound) has ran onto the same reef the Exxon Valdez stranded on abt 21 years ago.

more info here

Yup, after almost 21 years the reef is still there!

[Magogman]

from the aerial sequences I saw on yahoo.com taken from a US Coast Guard fixed wing aircraft it looks as if the tug was in a cove close to shore.  This would be some distance, in hundreds of yards, from where the Exxon Valdez grounded.  At 11pm CST Dec 25, 2009, yahoo.com was reporting a fuel slick a mile long in Prince William Sound.
The ship channel into Valdez, and Valdez itself, are diasters waiting to happen, or maybe I should say diasters that have happened and are waiting to happen again.  It is not where I would have put an oil terminal but then no one asked me for my opinion!