title: Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the "Exxon Valdez" Disaster
author:  Angela Day 
description: <span>&quot;Day is superb at weaving together political and business conflicts pertaining to oil spills and personal stories of those who live in areas in danger of spills... A work of love and thorough investigative journalism, delivered with the objectivity of a seasoned analyst.&quot;</span><br /><span>John Senger, in <i>Foreword Reviews</i></span><span></span><br /><br /><div><span>&quot;A deeply human reading of an event more commonly written about in terms of its magnitude and the widespread damage... <i>Red Light to Starboard</i> is an exceptional piece of narrative history.&quot; </span><br /><span>DavidA. James, in <i>Alaska Dispatch</i></span></div><i><i> </i> </i><br /><br />&quot;Published just weeks before the 25th anniversary of the oil spill, Angela Day&apos;s book achieves a synthesis at the convergence of several themes and experiences. .... I doubt that anybody could have written <i>Red Light to Starboard </i>much before the spill&apos;s 25th anniversary. The passage of nearly a human generation of time has allowed the devastating short-term effects of the spill to be understood in a wider context.&quot;<br />Dave Norton, in <i>The Polar Times<span></span></i><em> </em><br /><br /><span>&quot;AngelaDay.... with <i>Red Light to Starboard, </i>her informative and highly readable account of the spill as experienced by her husband Bobby Day, a lifelong fisherman in Prince William Sound, and his family who in the 1950s homesteaded the land on which the pipeline terminal would later be built.... To her credit, the author contextualizes the Day family story within the larger history of oildevelopment in Alaska as well as the social and economic changes in the fishing industry that even preceded the spill.&quot;</span><br /><span>Ross Coen, in <i>Alaska History</i></span><br /><br />&quot;This book was hard to put down...a wonderfully told tale, rich with characters who leap off the pages... Readers will come away with a healthy skepticism for extractive industries, their relationship to government regulators, and the costs that often are paid in the search for mineral and oil/gas wealth.&quot;<br />Edward P. Weber, Ulysses Dubach Professor of Political Science, School of Public Policy at Oregon State University
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  ## Part One
  
  
  INFERNO
  
  
  JULY 15, 2003
  
  
  THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
  
  
  If the disaster had been planned months in advance with meticulous insight and
  judgment, it could not have been more catastrophic. Everything that could go
  wrong did so beyond imagination. The luxurious cruise ship Emerald Dolphin was
  on fire and no one on board had an omen, a premonition, not even the slightest
  trace of suspicion of the danger. Yet flames were slowly devouring the
  interior of the ship's wedding chapel, located amidships just forward of the
  sumptuous shopping village.
  
  
  On the bridge, the officers went about their watch, oblivious to the pending
  disaster. None of the ship's automatic fire-warning systems, nor their
  backups, hinted at a problem. The console, with its schematic profile of the
  entire ship that displayed every fire-warning indicator aboard, was a sea of
  green lights. The one 