Authorities from the U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board believe a ship’s anchor hit an oil pipeline off Huntington Beach and eventually led to the Oct. 2 spill.
The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a container ship that dragged its anchor near to a Southern California subsea pipeline that was the source of an oil spill earlier this month.
The US Coast Guard boarded a container ship that dragged its anchor near to a Southern California undersea pipeline that was the source of an oil spill earlier this month.
(Bloomberg) The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a container ship that dragged its anchor near to a Southern California undersea pipeline that was the source of an oil spill earlier this month. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigators boarded MSC Danit on Saturday in the Port of Long Beach, according to a release from the agency. In stormy weather on Jan. 25, the ship dragged its anchor in close proximity to the pipeline which was the source of a major oil spill off Orange County this month that forced the closure of beaches and sullied wetlands. The Coast Guard has designated MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, operator of the vessel, and Dordellas Finance Corp., its owner, as “parties in interest” to the investigation. An email to Mediterranean Shipping sent Saturday for comment wasn’t returned. The growth of marine life around the breach in the Amplify Energy Corp. pipeline indicated that an anchor dragged by the line a while ago, rather than recently, U