I took a walk today to the San Francisco's pier number one, near the Ferry building and, near the Bay Bridge, where 58,000-gallon of oil got spilled a week ago. I wanted to get some fresh ocean air and to see how the bay is doing.

I coudn't see much oil floating on the water, but I could definitely smell it. In fact, oil was all I could smell. No ocean. Birds and jelly fish seemed to be doing just fine, swimming in the water, diving, catching fish. Several signs are posted along the piers. “No fishing, no swimming until further notice. Polluted water.”

It looks like they are still trying to clean the bay.

Here is some useful information.

Oil Spill Numbers:
To report oil sightings in the bay, please call 415-398-9617
To report oiled wildlife, please call 415-701-2311
To file a claim for oiled property, please call 888-850-8486

What's the Story on Oil Spills?

What do we use all this oil for?

to fuel our cars, trucks, and buses, and to heat our houses.
to lubricate machinery large and small, such as bicycles or printing presses.
to make the asphalt we use to pave our roads.
to make plastics, such as the toys we play with and the portable radios or CD players we listen to.
to make medicines, ink, fertilizers, pesticides, paints, varnishes, and electricity.