I took this photo about 1988, while on a multi-day dive trip to the southern California channel islands. At the time what I noticed was the nasty smoke billowing out of huge tanker. I did not notice the name of the ship, until today, over twenty years later. The Exxon Valdez. The name of the tanker had no meaning at the time as one of the worst ecological disasters in U.S. history hadn’t occurred yet.  

You may recall the valdez spilled over 10 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska on March 24, 1989, and was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. I think I’ll take a closer look at those hundreds of boxes of slides in my closet.