Dec. 17, 1976: Split in two, the 810-foot Liberian oil tanker Sansinena burns in San Pedro in Los Angeles Harbor after an explosion aboard rocked the coast, shattering windows in Costa Mesa, 21 miles away.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jack Gaunt / Los Angeles Times
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Dec. 17, 1976: Sheets of flame light the sky as firefighters pour water on the inferno caused by the explosion of the Sansinena. This image was one of three published on the Los Angeles Times Page One on Dec. 18.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times
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Dec. 17, 1976: An truck sits overturned by the explosion of the tanker Sansinena, whose bow is in background. The pickup truck was about 50 feet from the midsection of the ship.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bill Hodge / Los Angeles Times
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Dec. 20, 1976: U.S. Coast Guard divers prepare to search the water around the Sansinena.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times
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Dec. 18, 1976: Two men apparently escaped unharmed from a small shack housing a computer console for unloading operations at pier. The superstructure from the Sansinena flew over the shack and sits behind.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Cal Montney / Los Angeles Times
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Dec. 27, 1976: A worker waters down a bridge section of the Sansinena. To the right of the worker is the main deck.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Marilynn K. Lee / Los Angeles Times
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Dec. 28, 1976: Aerial view of the Sansinena wreckage with oil spill and containment equipment deployed.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Peter Brandt / Los Angeles Times
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Jan: 12, 1977: Bow section of the Sansinena being cut up by salvage barge.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times
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