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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — Refugio State Beach has been closed indefinitely as the oil slick off the coast of California expanded to 9 miles from the previously announced 4 miles, State Park officials said.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA — An emergency cleanup is underway along the southern California coastline after thousands of gallons of leaking oil created a massive slick.
A very large crude carrier the Nautica, which is part of a coordinated operation to remove oil from the FSO Safer, sits in Yemeni waters. In the coming days, an operation is expected to begin pumping 1.14 million barrels of crude oil to the Nautica from the FSO Safer, a rusting 47-year-old ship that the UN describes as a "ticking time bomb". IMAGES
Despite a tsunami advisory for the US West Coast closing beaches for sitting and laying in Manhattan Beach, California, surfers continue to ride the waves and beach volleyball players gather on the sand following an underwater volcano eruption in the South Pacific. IMAGES
Huntington Beach, Oct 9 (EFE/EPA).- More than 900 people continued Friday with cleaning tasks in different parts of southern California after the spill of some 570,000 liters of oil in the waters of that area almost a week ago.This is an increase of 100 troops compared to Thursday, according to the data provided to EFE by the operations center of the Unified Command, in charge of cleaning, recovering and investigating the environmental disaster. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTGAE SHOWS TAR ACCUMULATES ON THE SHORE AND CONTAMINATED SAND AFTER AN OIL SPILL OFF THE COAST OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, AND CREWS PICK THE TAR FROM THE BEACH AFTER AN OIL SPILL OFF THE COAST OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, US.