Through total accident, was at a picnic at Oakland’s Shoreline park, where you can walk out to a vista point and see the tankers getting unloaded and loaded. Here, we realized we were staring at the one that bashed into the Bay Bridge. Brother-in-law took photos, so thanks Mark!

And more after jump. The best way to see it was probably on a boat. We were surprised the ship was still unloading containers. They were placing metal-looking empty flats onto the boat while they took off the containers. The gash is very eerie looking. We didn’t see any oil around the coastline there, but did see containment efforts of foam-looking long bumpers up against the rocks, and lots of signs about no swimming, etc. nearby.

SF Metblogs’ Mark Pritchard wrote a post a few days ago when it happened.