Reuters: More than half an inch of oil covered the sea when Dennis Kelso’s boat, piled with a few newly dead birds, nudged up against the side of the Exxon Valdez on Friday, March 24, 1989. A rope ladder hung down the side of one of the biggest vessels on earth, which had run aground near midnight on a reef in pristine Prince William Sound, a haven for birds, whales and otters, brimming with fish that supplied a multimillion dollar industry. It is also next to the end of the …