Coast Guard Patrols Scene Of Collision --Thu 24 Jul 2008 01:11:05 PM EDT
The Coast Guard cutter Razorbill, homeported in Gulfport, MS, enforces a safety zone in the vicinity of a vessel collision that occured early Wednesday morning just north of the Huey P. Long Bridge near downtown New Orleans which resulted in a fuel oil spill of nearly 420,000 gallons. .The vessel in the foreground is a crane barge brought in to conduct planned salvage operations.
US Coast Guard photo/PA3 Stephen Lehmann
oil
boom is deployed around a vessel near downtown New Orleans Thursday,
July 24, 2008. A Unified Command, consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard,
State of Louisiana and American Commercial Line, is overseeing the
response to a vessel collision which resulted in a nearly 420,000
gallon fuel oil spill into the Mississippi River Wednesday near
downtown New Orleans.
US Coast Guard photo/PA3 Stephen Lehmann
Oil floats on the surface of the Mississippi River Thursday following a collision between a fuel barge and a chemical tanker Wednesday. The river was closed from mile marker 97, Gretna, La., to the Gulf of Mexico. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen)
Oil floats at the water's edge of the Mississippi River near Belle Chasse, La., Thursday after a collision between a fuel barge and a chemical tanker Wednesday. A formal investigation into the cause of the incident was launched. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen)
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