Name: Exxon Valdez oil spill harmed wildlife
Uploaded: 2025-05-22T04:18:49.000Z
Duration: 2 min 26 s
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Suddenly, the animals in Prince William Sound were fighting for their lives.

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There were otters that were completely coated with oil, surf scoters.

were sitting there, their throats had been ripped out by gulls.

that had, you know, seized opportunistically on these birds that could no longer fly.

And marine biologists from around the country to save the animals.

The longer that a marine animal is sitting in oil, the more you're going to be dealing with death.

Terry Williams had just published a study on cleaning oil from California sea otters.

Everything we had learned was going to be tested.

I really thought that the job was going to be fairly easy.

Clean him up and he was going to do just fine.

You had cleaned him, we had done everything we could and you're going, why didn't it work?

With other deaths and autopsies, they began to find answers.

We noticed that the lungs were not normal.

He's lovely this one, but he's been so sick.

In retrospect, Williams wishes she had put them down.

Knowing what I know now, there are animals that I would know enough to to euthanize.

before I would put him through a whole rehab process.

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