A Sunken Tanker Off the California Coast Will Someday Leak Oil if Nothing is Done

San Luis Obispo New Times | July 21, 2008
There are growing concerns that the Montebello could offer up a second adventure/disaster story, this one of an ecological nature. Researchers are confident that the tanker still entombs its cargo, more than 3 million gallons of Santa Maria crude loaded from the Union Oil facility in Avila Beach.

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