Talk:Cosco Busan oil spill

message: It is not an estimated 20,000 birds dead. Please check your facts on the link you provided. The official count/estimate is closer to 2,000.
:The facts have been checked on the link that was provided, and the estimate is 20,000 with the official count closer to 2,000. I hope that helps clear up the confusion. The article(here on wikipedia) only says the word "estimate" thus the 20,000 number is the only one said. Maybe we should included both numbers into the article to offer neutral point of view on the subject? 
:As a side, on February 4, 2008 IP address 12.191.116.131 had the same problem; '20,000 is an ESTIMATED number NOT confirmed. 2,000 are CONFIRMED dead, don't mislead.'. Loonymonkey responded with this: 'It said "estimated." The text is from the cited source. If you have another reliable source, it's welcome but don't editorialize.'. R00m c (talk) 04:24, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the year "2007" is what distinguishes it from the others.  Hopefully, there won't be another one this year. --Loonymonkey 17:18, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How many dead birds?

message: *The editor that removed the current event tag is correct. The tag isn't appropriate for this article anymore.  While the oil spill (and its repercussions) is indeed still a "current event" the tag is only intended for events that are rapidly unfolding in the short term.  As per Template_talk:Current the tag is "designed for short-term use as a warning for editors and readers if an event was occurring right that very second (or very, very recently). It was not intended for general use over the span of weeks or months for a long-term, ongoing event that would experience little editing during the event..."  --Loonymonkey 17:25, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current event tag 

message: *Everybody in the Bay Area calls the spill the Cosco Busan oil spill, rather than the 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill, so I created this page and shifted content across and redirected 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill to this page. Additionally, this change consistent with the title of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. 16:50, 19 June 2009 User:Wynfredw
Suggest a page for the "Cosco Busan Oil Spill - 2007 San Francisco" and a separate page for the vessel itself; and the vessel page would link to the spill page for discussion of the spill.  And a separate page for the Hanjin Venezia - the new name for the vessel.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.225.241.162 (talk) 17:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move?

message: I'm a former Traffic Controller, and I worked at VTS San Francisco a couple of years before the incident. I know that it is standard practice at the VTS *not* to call the pilot on the radio, once he or she has started the line-up for one of the bridge spans. This is because, it's felt that the pilot at this time will be focusing all of his or her attention on a safe passage through the span. But, VTS *did* in fact call the pilot as he was starting to move toward the bridge, showing their level of concern for what they were seeing on their monitors. The article makes it sound as if they did nothing.
As a side-note, at the time of the incident, the VTS was empowered only to *advise* a pilot on anything to do with navigational safety; they didn't have the power to *direct* any pilot. Wandering1 (talk) 11:12, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  VTS San Francisco Involvement. 

message: WHAT "prescription pharmaceuticals"? That's kind of significant, I think. There are plenty of pretty benign drugs out there that one could claim caused an accident, and probably convict someone on that basis, even when there is no actual proof the drugs were what caused the accident. Many types of drugs can potentially cause cognitive problems, but what proof did they have that his actually did? Did they just convict him on these charges because they MIGHT have caused the accident, or did they actually have good reason to believe that they did? Anyway, it kind of makes a difference if he was popping Valiums or Oxycontins before he went to work that day, or if he was just taking Zoloft or something like that, which many lawyers could probably use to effectively get  you convicted, especially when the politicians and authorities are desperately looking for someone to scapegoat and burn at the stake to appease the voters and other politicians..45Colt 07:42, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prescription pharmaceuticals? 

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