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Exxon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood dies at 75

FILE - Crude oil from the tanker Exxon Valdez, top, swirls on the surface of Alaska's Prince William Sound near Naked Island on April 9, 1989. Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 75. He died in July 2022, after struggling with COVID-19 and cancer, his nephew Sam Hazelwood told the newspaper for a story reported Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File) FILE - Workers test a mild chemical oil dispersant on a beach contaminated by the Exxon spill in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 18, 1989. Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 75. He died in July 2022, after struggling with COVID-19 and cancer, his nephew Sam Hazelwood told the newspaper for a story reported Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Clare Richardson, File) FILE - Fired Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood, right, sits with his lawyer Michael Chalos as a photograph of the tanker is displayed on an easel in Anchorage Superior Court, March 20, 1990. Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has died in July 2022, the New York Times reported. He was 75. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File) FILE - Former Exxon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood is surrounded by reporters as he leaves his re-licensing hearing in Long Beach, Calif., on July 25, 1990. Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground more than three decades ago in Alaska, causing one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, has died in July 2022, the New York Times reported. He was 75. (AP Photo/Alan Greth, File)