San Francisco, CA — At 8:30 a.m. a container vessel, COSCO BUSAN, accidentally hit the D span of the Bay Bridge. The vessel, out bound at the time of the accident with a pilot onboard, reported damage to the forward left side causing heavy duty bunker fuel (IFO380) to spill into the San Francisco [...]
Posts on ‘November 7th, 2007’
Coast Guard investigating lifejackets and oil sheen near Point Monroe, Wash.
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard is searching an area of water near Point Monroe, Wash., today after locating two sheens and four lifejackets in the vicinity.
A 25-foot response boat from Coast Guard Sector Seattle spotted the first lifejacket at 1 p.m. near Point Meadow north of Elliot Bay in Seattle. Another three lifejackets were [...]
Work continues on Tammany Pipeline Spill High Island
PORT ARTHUR, Texas – Crews are preparing to start removing the concrete around the Tammany Oil & Gas pipeline that ruptured Monday in their continued efforts to stop the oil leak off of McFaddin Beach, Texas, today.
Work on repairs to the pipeline was supposed to start Tuesday afternoon, but the Coast Guard Captain of the [...]
Training Center Cape May to honor Chief Warrant Officer William Carson
CAPE MAY, N.J. – Training Center Cape May personnel will host a retirement ceremony for Chief Warrant Officer William G. Carson Friday at 2 p.m., in the training center gymnasium.
Carson served the Coast Guard for 30 years and spent all but six months here at Training Center Cape May. He entered the Coast Guard in [...]
Coast Guard reports oil spill in Kahului Harbor
The Honolulu Advertiser reports:
Maui Electric Co. has spilled 100 gallons of oil into Kahului Harbor this morning, a U.S. Coast Guard official said.
Petty Officer Angela Henderson said she is still gathering information on the spill and did not immediately know if harbor operations are disrupted.
A Maui Electric Co. spokeswoman did not immediately return phone calls [...]
Coast Guard Concludes Investigation of Long Island Sound Collision
New York – The U.S. Coast Guard announced today that it has concluded its investigation into the cause of an early morning collision between the motor vessel BARKALD and the sailing vessel ESSENCE in Long Island Sound Sept. 20, 2006, that left a crewmember onboard the ESSENCE dead. Ms. Gina Bortolotti, a cook [...]
Coast Guard Transports Injured Man from Bahamas to Miami
MIAMI – A Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Clearwater, Fla., deployed in support of Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) is transporting a 64-year-old man from Farmers Cay, Bahamas, to Jackson Memorial Hospital after he suffered serious injuries to his hand Wednesday.
Dewey Swain, of Charleston, S.C., suffered serious injuries to his [...]