 In August of 1993, three ships collided in Tampa Bay, Florida. The accident, located west of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, and due south of the Fort Desoto pier, involved three tankers. Over 32,000 gallons of jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline and about 330,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil spilled from the barges into the waters of Tampa Bay and Gulf of Mexico.Oil containment crews, who had been recently trained from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, could not prevent over 13 miles of shoreline, beaches and mangrove habitat. The oil slick caused major havoc to the environment, wildlife, shipping, and fishing commerce. The ever popular beaches of St. Petersburg to Clearwater were polluted with oil sludge form the spill.
Tourism plummeted along the pristine sands of St. Petersburg Beach north to Clearwater Beach
Trial Exhibits, Inc. was hired immediately after the collision took place by Maritrans Shipping a subsidiary of TECO, Corp. to provide the following services:
Photography and Video documentation of the coastline from the island of Egmont Key (South of the collision site), to the North shore of Clearwater beach, the Intercostals waterways, and the shoreline of Tampa Bay. Trial Exhibits, Inc. flew daily helicopter documentation flights for 31 straight days, monitoring the oil migration in the Gulf of Mexico, Oil damage to the recreational beaches, and progress of the EPA clean-up locations set up throughout Tampa Bay.
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Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico - Photography, Video, Visual Aids
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