Fifty years ago, a devastating oil spill galvanized Bolinas

In dense fog at 1:45 a.m. on Jan. 19, 1971, two massive Standard Oil Company tankers met in a catastrophic collision in San Francisco Bay, spilling more than 800,000 gallons of foul-smelling, gooey oil into the Bay. Fifty years later, this story is both a powerful reminder of how easily accidents ca