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Ship's Pilot Gets Jail Time for San Francisco Bay Cosco Busan Oil Spill

"A federal judge sentenced a veteran ship's pilot to 10 months in prison Friday for the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill in the bay, saying his carelessness was exactly what Congress intended to punish when it toughened maritime laws after the Exxon Valdez disaster." - excerpt from this SFGate.com article.

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