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Path of the Cosco Busan Hitting the Bay Bridge
The animation below shows the Cosco Busan as it leaves the Port of Oakland on November 7, 2007, and hits the Bay Bridge at 8:30 am on its way to the Golden Gate, triggering the largest oil spill in San Francisco Bay in more than a decade.
The Cosco Busan is the bright red arrow. (Hover over a ship to see its information.)
You can see that the ship was traveling at an acute angle to the bridge and then turned sharply, directly into the center tower of the bridge. (The towers are highlighted with red dots to make them more visible.)
Disclaimer: This information was received by our AIS receiver in Tiburon and the signal was processed by our custom software. We make no representation as to its accuracy. Positions are approximate. We do not have time stamps for this track.
New animation now available: this more detailed animation of the incident was rendered from our data by gCaptain.com and Jakota Cruise Systems.
Note: Please be patient while the ship data is loaded. If the animation doesn't begin within one minute, refresh the page (F5 or click the refresh button in your broswer. You can also try our standard version of the Flash animation, or the video version (25 Mbyte file).
Note: Please be patient while the ship data is loaded. If the animation doesn't begin within one minute, try the standard version. If you still can't get the animation to run, try the video version (25 Mbyte file).
Lists of Ships
For a complete list of all the ships our AIS receiver has logged (since April 2006), sliced and sequenced on request, visit the San Francisco Bay Ships page.
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