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Looking for Killer Whales 26 Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Part 1) | National Geographic


in 1989 the largest oil spill in US
history destroyed a remote Alaskan
wilderness that was a long time ago most
people say the sound is back to normal
except for this man he’s been studying
killer whales caught up in the spill
he believes they’re still dying and it
could be because of oil oh my god
smells like a gas station – check it out
we load 2,000 pounds of provisions onto
a sailboat and set out to reach ground
zero for the spill
here’s the view yeah I think this should
show the Cape yes go around Cape
resurrection point across once we get
inside a capable ranking here we’ll see
how far away until we’re save nine to
ten hours is what it should take with
that south forecast now it is going to
be building ten right at us but yeah we
should be able to beat it
gotta go gotta go right now yo morning
Tuesday today 113 on
to be building to 12 feet in the
afternoon late tonight
southwest wind 30 knots 14 feet
there’s remote and then there’s where
we’re going we have to cross the Gulf of
Alaska it’s a place where the waves can
build 240 feet our boat is 36 feet it’s
a great boat but you wouldn’t want to
take anything smaller on a journey like
this alright so we have a little bit of
weather we were able to make it out it
was good because it was now or never
the forecast
man look at that wonder water
300 Walker Oh
I need a remake me to read oh my god
like wow look at that know if you can
see that my hand but it is coming down
hard and fast we’re seeing lightning off
in the distance we’re on a sailboat with
a mast that reaches up into the sky
after a rough day at sea we finally
reached the protected waters of the
Prince William Sound this is where a
tanker unleashed a catastrophic amount
of crude oil back in 1989 should be good
we’ll shut her down if we’re done now
that we’re here we’ll settle in and try
to make contact with the team who’s been
stunning the whales that were caught up
in the spill been a wet wet day and we
help you have money i’m nato anna TOA
sweet babboo channel one six do you
think sweet babboo is your nickname he’s
who I would not want to answer that call
she was about me you must be another
research belt well I don’t know we’re
not getting him so it’s after nine
o’clock it’s been a long day we just
have to start fresh tomorrow some T’s
are literally on their knees using
absorbent towels to remove the
rocky beaches so this is from the spill
and you have to looks like fishing boats
trying to clean up stream of crude oil
and swimming directly towards that crude
you have
least to killer whales here you have a
puffin
where it was white is blind I mean it is
astonishing you have oil hitting one
wreath and spreading 1500 miles the
largest oil spill in the United States
at the time but it makes you wonder what
are the long-term effects of that last
bell what’s left today
smells like a gas station there’s this
big social disruption and then some of
the survivors are Hill also we got big
fins we got the killer whales there’s
something to it go to you can still
smell it
to this day you can still smell it
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