Guilty - San Francisco Oil Spill Captain Faces Jailtime

First rumored on gCaptain's maritime forum last week, the news is now official… John Cota, pilot of the Cosco Busan, has plead guilty to charges and faces jail time. The San Francisco Chronicle tells us; The...

San Francisco Pilot’s Report Published

The San Francisco Chronicle has published the Pilot’s Report on the Cosco Busan Incident. Here are the parts of interest to mariners; " Meadows said problems also cropped up in “bridge management,” the...

Reporting Errors in San Francisco Oil Spill.

gCaptain's editors have been amazed lately by the number of errors in both media reports and political commentary related to the the container ship Cosco Busan that allided with San Francisco's Bay Bridge. We...

San Francisco Bay oil spill spreads

This is so terrible, does anyone have any images? "An oil spill from a container ship in San Francisco Bay continued to spread today, coating some of the state's most storied coastline and imperiling hundreds of...