MUSI3041 Assignment 6 - Yip Huen Isis

 




The original music 


Related News of the San Francisco Oil Spill Incidents:


                                                                                1971


https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/19/archives/tanker-collision-dumps-a-huge-oil-spill-in-san-francisco-bay.html


1996

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/15/ship-involved-in-major-oil-spill-leaves-san-francisco-bay-forever/

2007

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/us/10spill.html



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