Tide Isn't High Enough For Fuel Tanker

The fuel tanker, the White Sea, that ran aground near the Ambrose Channel off Coney Island and Sandy Hook, NJ, yesterday morning, is still stuck in the waters. An attempt to dislodge the 800-foot ship carrying over half a million barrels of "low-sulfur fuel oil" failed last night, so the Coast Guard began plans to "lighten" (remove) 110,000 barrels of fuel after the ship couldn't be moved. Coast Guard officials are hopeful that it can be dislodged during tonight's high tide around 8PM.

The Coast Guard says that the ship's steering system failed and the White Sea ran into what the Sun calls a "hard sandbar." There were no injuries reported and ship is not leaking, but its hull did sustain two breaches to ballast water tanks (divers will inspect damage this morning). A containment boom was launched by the ship, and there are additional booms available from the Coast Guard in case a spill does occur. Tugboats and the Coast Guard are guarding the ship, and the NYPD, FDNY, and Office of Emergency Management are monitoring the situation.

The ship is owned by Singapore-based Tanker Pacific; the ship was headed from Bayonne to Singapore. The Coast Guard says that no other ships were being delayed by the grounding.

Photograph of people enjoying a day at the beach, with the tanker in the background, by Kathy Willens/AP

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By Jen Chung in News on July 13, 2007 8:27 AM

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guest

Umm...is that Shia LaBeouf?

ed_Extinct

^Typical second-grade reading comprehension skills:

My initial "admission" was not following by any insults...

it was the insults that followed hat warranted my defense.

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Umm... i stand corrected.

[8] Posted by: edEx | July 13, 2007 10:11 AM

guest

umm... yeah... at least i have the courage to say i was wrong about the new moon... that's more than i can say for most you nit-wits.

Typical New Yorker. Admits he's wrong by insulting everyone.

guest

I'm gonna tell Jen on you

ed_Extinct

umm... yeah... at least i have the courage to say i was wrong about the new moon... that's more than i can say for most you nit-wits.

guest

edEx thinks he has a constitutional right not to be corrected.

guest

Hey guys, calm down..!

ed_Extinct

^fuck you!

guest

"And how does one go about getting it un-stuck without damaging the hull?'

High tide, dip shit.

Posted by: edEx | July 12, 2007 5:08 PM

Who's the dip shit now? Ass.

ed_Extinct

Umm... i stand corrected.

guest

What is oil doing being shipped from Bayonne to Singapore? Does the US export oil to Singapore, or is that just the delivery point for oil bought on the NYMEX?