A container ship ran into a support tower of the Bay Bridge, rupturing its fuel tank. As first they thought it was just 140 gallons of oil; then they realized it was 58,000 gallons.
Uh... in looking at the pictures it seems like there must have also been serious damage below the as-floating water line. That gash down the side is too high on the side, and I really don't think bunker fuel tanks would be up there. That gash also doesn't appear to be bleeding any oil.
It must have grounded, and hard, on some part of the pier underwater, in addition to the scrape up top.
Does anybody know if they've said anything about how this happened? Did they lose power or steerage... or what?