Oil Spill on Huntington Beach, California

A heron that is reluctant to take flight finally takes off as workers managing a containment boom come very close in Talbert Marsh, which has been impacted by a major oil spill, on October 5, 2021 near Huntington Beach, California. Authorities are investigating if a ship's anchor may have struck an off-shore pipeline in Southern California, sending at least an estimated 126,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean and leaving officials struggling to prevent an "ecological disaster".