SAN FRANCISCO - Nine months after an oil slick spread across the Bay from the Cosco Busan, the ship’s tarnished name has been scrubbed off its hull, but exhaustive cleanup efforts have failed to remove all of the spilled toxic fuel from area shorelines. Evidence of the oily mess surfaced as recently as last month, with tar balls showing up on beaches north of Marin and in Alameda. The November spill, the worst the Bay has seen in decades, occurred when the 900-foot container ship, which has since been renamed the Venezia, struck the Bay Bridge in heavy morning fog, ripping open two of its tanks and releasing more than 53,000 gallons of fuel. The toxic spill killed thousands of birds, suspended fishing in the Bay and closed down numerous beaches. About one-third of the fuel was subsequently recovered, but another 30,000...
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