it s something i ve had to live with for 25 years. i m keira phillips in valdez, alaska. for years there were warnings. and then it happened. a complete breakdown in a system that was supposed to prevent catastrophe. now, 25 years later, we re asking the question, could it happen again? it began in the port of valdez. like thousands of other routine voyages. if there s anything routine about shipping 53 million gallons of flammable toxic crude. how many times had you done that route? i think over a hundred times, in and out. 42-year-old captain joseph hazelwood was highly regarded by
past. and opens up about what happened that fateful night. why did you decide to talk to me? it s something i ve had to live with for 25 years. i m keira phillips in valdez, alaska. for years there were warnings. and then it happened. a complete breakdown in a system that was supposed to prevent catastrophe. now, 25 years later, we re asking the question, could it happen again? it began in the port of valdez. like thousands of other routine voyages. if there s anything routine about shipping 53 million gallons of flammable toxic crude. how many times had you done that route?
aaron hernandez, the same night wound to the head. that is the fox report top five. and on this day in 1977. crude oil poured down the transatlanta pipeline. they discovered the massive supply on the northern coast. a place tanker shipscant go. and there came a plan to build a pipeline. when crews finished it spanned over 800 miles right to the port of valdez. there was a environmental disaster. and the ex-wife exxon spill. and oil first flowed over the american frozen tunedra 36 years ago today.