moment of impact, what do you remember? i was sitting at the desk in my office, and it just started to shake. not a violent shaking, but a very strange vibration. at that moment, the phone that was hanging on the bulkhead next to my desk rang. it was the third mate. he said, we re in trouble and i took off. hazelwood s ship had hit a two-mile underwater ridge, blye wreath. were alarms going off? when i got to the bridge, they were going off, yes. loud bells, sirens. when you heard those alarms, were you thinking, oh, my god? well, i had a pretty good idea we had run aground. i threw up in the toilet that was jet stream to the bridge when i got up there. why did you throw up? i felt like i had been kicked
yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! the exxon valdez had collided with blye wreath. we re approaching the exxon valdez. she s hard aground. you could see oil like a boiling caldron. dan raced to the scene. the vessel has lost 105,000 barrels of oil so far. it s coming up so fast, it s shooting five feet above the surface. so did you ever worry about shallow water? not in alaska.
right in the stomach. hazelwood checked to make sure the crew was safe, and calmly notified the coast guard. we ve fetched up hard aground. and evidently leaking some oil. we re going to be here for a while. so everybody knew we were in trouble. while the crew saw oil bubbling to the surface here at blye wreath, they had no idea how bad it was down below. until the first diver went in. i was the eyes of everybody else. xop hired rick wade to survey the damage. it was catastrophic.