Tower on the San Francisco bridge. The coast guard reports no oil spill resulted. Weve learned the tanker had already been unloaded. And caltrans says there was no major damage to the bridge. It remained open to travel traffic. We have continuing coverage now from heather holmes. Shes live at Treasure Island with what shes learned about the bar pilot guiding that tanker and the scrutiny hes now facing. Reporter hes been a bar pilot since 2005. Prior to that he worked for several years on oil tankers for exxon. But today while guiding that vessel. The overseas raymar this experienced mainer sideswiped the tower of the bridge. Look at the top left side of this picture. That is a piece of the bridge barrier stuck to the side of the ships hull. About 30 to 40 feet of the tower system has been damaged and will have to be repaired. Reporter the wooden and metal barrier protected the bridge. But the question remained today why did the pilot steer the oil tanker right into the tower . The visi
Board the vessel right now conducting interviews with the crew and just gathering as much data as possible. Reporter one of the things we heard yesterday is that visibility may have been a factor, it was reduced to maybe quarter of a mile. How do you look into that as a factor . We want to first determine what the visibility was. And of course the investigation will help with that. But that said, visibility as you know in the bay area here could always be a challenge. These vessels are pretty technically advanced with radar and navigation equipment. So much like you might land an airplane in reduced visibility, sometimes these vessels can travel in limited visibility as well. Reporter and can you share with us anything of the interview with the pilot and what things might be going on there . Well, not exactly. There is obviously going to be an interview with the pilot. He is one of the many interviews that we will be conducting. But the details of that, no, not at this time we cant sha