Ten years after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, every tanker departs the terminal at Valdez with a tugboat tethered to its stern and another alongside.

As the biggest fishing town on Prince William Sound, Cordova may have suffered the greatest economic loss of any community in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Ten years ago on March 24, 1989, 11.2 million gallons of oil spilt into Alaska's Prince William Sound after Captain Joseph Hazelwood skippered the Exxon Valdez onto Bligh Reef.

Ten years ago, on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled almost 11 million gallons of oil into Price William Sound, killing more than 5,000 sea otters. The spill has been called the largest environmental disaster in recent history -- but because of it, the United States is now better equipped to handle such a disaster.

A report from the panel overseeing restoration of Alaska's Prince William Sound, where the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled millions of gallons of oil in 1989, says only two of the nearly two dozen species hurt are fully recovered.

There's an old saying that one man's trash is another man's treasure. And what could be trashier than hair clippings on the floor of a beauty parlor or barber shop?

Images of birds covered in crude oil, their wings tarred to their bodies, standing on beaches blanketed with black ooze have become almost commonplace.