Lots of pictures, for those interested:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...bremen/100231/.

Astonishing photos! Thanks for posting.

Amazing. Thanks for the link.

Semi, what a disaster! Thanks for the info...

Really good report -- we certainly didn't have such a complete report locally in France (well, maybe in the Brittany regional newspapers...).

In the US that would have taken at least three times as long, cost three times as much, required six times as many workers, been on the nightly news with protests from somebody, been the site and subject of a tee shirt industry (product range from Save the Beaches to I Visited the Tanker Disaster and All I Got Was This Lousy Tee Shirt), and made millions in billable hours for environmental consultants, lobbyists for tanker lines, the oil industry, the Sierra Club, and lawyers for everybody. Think how we would have commercialized the nuclear power disaster in Japan. When did we turn into a nation of people who seek to profit from every occurrence in the universe?

So sad to see that beautiful beach covered with oil slick but thanks for the report as we didn't see that on our evening news just stupid crazy useless politics.

I read at the time of the Italian shipwreck that such things are much more common than we'd think... it's only the really big or weird ones that get any media attention.

Thanks for posting such an informative link!

News to me, so glad to now know. A terrific series of pictures. Thank you for the link.