Dec 5 & 12: Kill the Spill Volunteer Appreciation Nights

Head out Wednesday, December 5th,  for Kill the Spill Volunteer Appreciation Night, in conjunction with Zuna Surf’s triple-header Surf Movie Night and Holiday Madness Bash at Sports Basement - Potrero Hill.
Kick off the winter waveseason right, get your holiday shopping done early, and enter to win a 6′2″shortboard from shaper Bob Miller of Bluecoil!    Enjoy [...]

Tue 11.26.07 | Report Sick or Oiled Birds

Here’s another way to contact the bird groups for any bird rescue matters below via email to to the International Bird Research & Rescue Center.  Some folks have reported seeing dead birds last week south of Half Moon Bay, as some sick/injured birds in Santa Cruz.
http://ibrrc.org/found_oiled_bird.html

Wed | Day 15 - Join Us for Thanksgiving CleanUp, Ocean Beach + Bolinas

Per KTS, Matter of Trust, and the SF Dept of Emergency Management:
Volunteer Beach Clean-up Thanksgiving Day
National Park Service Officials anticipate that the high tide on the morning of November 22nd, Thanksgiving Day, may deposit small tar balls and minor amounts of oil at Ocean Beach.
Therefore, the City and County of San Francisco, together with the Environmental Protection [...]

Tue | Day 14 - Future Clean-Ups & Reminder Tips

Per KTS this morning:
“With the Volunteers trained and oil still washing up on our beaches, we know people are frustrated with the official volunteer efforts coming to an end, prematurely.  Stay tuned for additional clean-ups to be organized, timed with the tides.  Please continue to help us get feedback on the state of the beaches, [...]

Tue | Day 14 - Thank You, Marin Update

We’ve added a THANK YOU page to all the wonderful donors and key supporters of the grassroots cleanup.  See the tab at the top of the page.  We’re updating it as we go along, so let us know whom we’ve missed.
MARIN UPDATE:
Per Natalie Pepper this morning:
“Most of the oil on the sand has been cleaned at [...]

Mon | Day 13 - Kill the Spill in the Media

Here are a few articles covering the surf community’s grassroots efforts:
1.  LA Times 11.18.07  “Spill Guerillas Hit the Beach”
2.  Surfline 11.13.07:  “KILL THE SPILL San Francisco surfers take cleaning Ocean Beach into their own hand”
- article by Marcus Sanders, with quotes from Proof Lab and Surfrider SF:
3.  Surfer Magazine: “SEEPING THROUGH SAN FRAN: Oil Spill Ravages OB, [...]

Mon | Day 13 - Fistful of OB Oil from Sunday

From OB resident, Ben Garcia: “As per sunday at 10 am there was plenty of small oil blobs seen on ocean beach.  I walked a small area between fulton and kirkham and in an hour or less had a fistful of oil.”  See photo above.

Mon | Day 13 - new update for Ocean Beach

More on OB, per Darin & Kathleen of Kill the Spill:
” I just checked OB [this morning, Monday] and there are signs saying the you should use the beach at your own risk.  Between Noriega and Taraval there were THREE quarter sized oil spots!  The surf looks good, overhead and glassy on the outside.” — Kathleen, [...]

Mon | Day 13 Update - Pacifica, Berkeley, Ocean Beach, Marin

Thank you all for your reports.  Keep them coming in, so we can let the official agencies know where to deploy more resources. 
PACIFICA:
Per Greg Cochran of Pedro Point Surf Club on Sunday:
 ”We have had small amounts of oil washing ashore on all of our beaches.  The Pro Cleanup crew cleaned Linda Mar this AM [Sunday]. [...]

Sun | Day 12 Update

Per KTS, 403 more folks were trained on Saturday!  That brings it to well over 1400 officially trained in San Francisco.   
Ocean Beach opened up yesterday (although posted signs along the beach still say it’s closed)…but we are getting reports from that Ocean Beach may not be clean enough.  It also sounds like there’s still plenty [...]