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After yesterday's fog-induced Cosco Busan/Bay Bridge crash -- resulting in 58,000 gallons of fuel and 8,000 gallons of "heavy-duty bunker fuel oil" spilling into the Bay -- Baker Beach, Crissy Field, China Beach, Kirby Cove, and Fort Point beaches (or "beaches" to some of you purists out there) have been closed. Large blobby slicks as big as 50 yards long and 20 yards wide have been spotted off Tiburon and near Mill Valley's Bayfront...

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 51.

The Mavericks Surf Contest, held in the treacherous and icy waters north of Half Moon Bay, is the world's greatest big wave surfing contest. The on-again, off-again contest founded by Half Moon Bay surf legend Jeff Clark in 1999, in on again for tomorrow, February 7, 2006.