(AP) — An oil slick stretched across 9 miles of coastal waters Thursday after a pipeline rupture spilled thousands of gallons of sticky, stinking crude just north of Santa Barbara. The 1969 blowout at a Union Oil Co. offshore platform dumped more than 3 million gallons of crude oil over a span of a month. According to initial estimates, it spilled up to 105,000 gallons, with the majority of the oil remaining on land. The 1969 spill killed 9,000 birds, 8.8 million barnacles, 30,000 mussels and 51,800 limpets, according to tallies by biology professor Michael Neushul of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Environmental groups used Tuesday's spill as a new opportunity to take a shot at fossil fuels and remind people of the area's notoriety with oil spills.