John Cota was piloting a container ship, the Cosco Busan, that hit San Francisco 's Bay Bridge on November 7 , 2007 , spilling 58,000 gallons of oil. Oil Spill Pilot Thought Impact Was Minor (November 12, 2007) SFGate.com: San Francisco Bay Oil Spill Investigated (November 13, 2007) Cota argued that he did not understand the severity of his crash at first because he did not feel the impact or hear a loud noise. John Cota John Cota is currently a stub, a brief collection of the best links for this story. Let us know if you've found additional quality links about John Cota on Google , Del.icio.us , Digg or elsewhere, and we can expand this result.
Correction: Bay Spill storyIn a July 17 story about a sentencing in an oil spill case, The Associated Press misidentified John Cota as the helmsman of the cargo ship Cosco Busan that caused a 2007 environmental disaster in San Francisco Bay. Cota was the pilot of the ship, as noted elsewhere in the story. Another sailor served as helmsman. Copyright ...
Feds cite poor communication between captain and pilot in Bay Bridge ship crash and oil spillA medically unfit pilot, an ineffective captain and poor communications between the two were the cause of a November 2007 accident leading a ship to spill thousands of gallons of fuel oil into the San Francisco Bay, safety officials said Wednesday.In reviewing the accident ...