Twenty - Five years ago the Exxon Valdez oil tankerspilled its guts across Alaska ’s shoreline . It was a massive ecological disaster of great grandness for many reason , but mostly because it ’s seared in our memory board by horrifying photos . Here ’s a aggregation of the striking double that informed a generation of dialogue about environmentalism .
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A local fisherman inspects a utter California gray whale on the northern shoring of Latoucha Island , Alaska , Sunday afternoon on April 9 , 1989.John Gaps III/ AP Photo
Steve Provant , Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation ’s on - scene clear - up Colorado - ordinator , analyze oily rocks on Green Island , June 25 , 1989 in Prince William Sound . Jack Smith/ AP Photo
An rock oil hook chick is examined on an island in Prince William Sound . Jack Smith/ AP Photo
Crude crude oil from the tanker Exxon Valdez , top , swirl on the aerofoil of Alaska ’s Prince William Sound near Naked Island Saturday , April 9 , 1989 , 16 days after the tanker scarper aground . John Gaps III / AP Photo
The Exxon Baton Rouge , smaller ship , attempt to off cargo raw oil from the Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound , Alaska on March 26 , 1989.AP Photo
Oil clean - up workers prepare to hoover up blunt oil on the shoreline of Block Island , in Prince William Sound , Alaska , on April 17 , 1989.John Gaps III/ AP Photo
Crews use high pressured hose to blare the rocks on this beach front on Naked Island , Alaska , April 21 , 1989.Rob Stapleton / AP Photo
On April 2 , 1989 workers hopelessly seek to remove globs of oil from Baked Island in Prince William Sound , Alaska . Jack Smith / AP Photo
Troy Adamson , left , and Nicolette Heaphy cleanse a cormorant that had been track in oil at the bird cleanng center in Valdez , Alaska , April 4 , 1989.Rob Stapleton / AP Photo
Top image : The grounded oil tanker Exxon Valdez , leave , drop off oil onto a small tanker , San Francisco , as efforts to refloat the ship continue on Prince William Sound , 25 miles from Valdez , Alaska , April 4 , 1989.AP Photo
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