THE DVD OF PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND'S OILY BEACHES- 2008 WILL BE 19 YEARS AFTER
On March 24, 1989, a stunned nation watched in horror as news unfolded
that an Exxon tanker had unleashed over one million barrels of crude oil
in the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska.
From March 24 until September 15, when the last cleanup barge left the Sound,
the attempt to clean up the largest oil spill in American History was among the
top news stories every day. The nation wanted answers: what was being done to
recover the crude, and how it was being achieved? Little would they know what
really took place in the lives of the workers who were hired to wash the oily
beaches. And the health effect on the workers for many years after. How they
overcame a myriad of obstacles, toxic spraying, environmental, and political,
on a daily basis to complete a 12-16 hour work day on the beach. This incident
will always be regarded as the most devastating oil spill in history.
I shot videos concerning this news event, during the summer of 1989, which
have been edited and compiled into one. Workers who were in the video expressed
a desire to obtained a copy. This video was shown at the reunion in Alaska, and
I promised to have copies made available for anyone who wanted one. It has been
a long time coming, but since I was forced to retired for health reasons, there
has been time for me to not only finish my first book, but to edit and produce
the tape and to also make a DVD.
There is narrated coverage of the beach scene during a normal work day, as the
different working boats perform their tasks of recovering oil from the water and
beaches.
It was a long and hard summer and unless you were there it would be impossible
to understand what took place. This DVD was made so the people who were there
would have a preserved way to remember the adventure and for the others who were
not, to see the distinctive circumstances surrounding a work day on the oil covered
beaches in Alaska during the summer of 1989.
This DVD will show oily beaches, working boats, crews and the entire cleaning
process of Task Force 1 on one beach. Hopefully the movie will help to explain the
procedure. The DVD will take a few minutes to download.
To save the DVD to view again: After the download and it is playing; go to
bottom left, right click on dvd, then file, there you can save as: (I saved it to
my desktop). Enjoy and let me know what you think.
