Hurricane Isaac - Sector Mobile Responses, Sector Mobile, AOR-MS, AL, FL...
This is a sub-incident hotline started 7Sep12 of the General Hurr Isaac General support that is for activities within the Sector Mobile AOR.
View ArticleMystery Sheen, Cheboygan, MI
On 04 SEPT 2012, USCG received a report of a sheen from an unknown source on the sand and in Lake Huron in Cheboygan, MI. A retired USCG Chief was on scene and reported that the sheen did not reform...
View ArticleF/V GEMINI, F/V WESTERN FLYER, Swinomish Channel, WA
At approximately 1200 Pacfic time September 24, 2012 NOAA SSC was notified by USCG Sector Puget Sound of the sunk fishing vessel GEMINI (officially registered as WESTERN FLYER) under the Twin Bridges...
View ArticleF/V MAVERICK, 30 miles W. of La Push, WA
At about 0830 Pacific time Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound contacted NOAA SSC about a vessel collision. Between approximately 0530 and 0600 a vessel collision occurred in position 47 55.5 N, 125 19.6 W...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy - Spills in the Arthur Kill, Arthur Kill, NJ
USCG Sector New York requested scientific support from NOAA Emergency Response Division on 31Oct2012 for Hurricane Sandy related pollution incidents. The USCG is currently responding to oil spills in...
View ArticleBarge HMS 2000, Port Angeles, WA
USCG Sector Puget Sound notified the NOAA SSC that at 0320 this morning the Barge HMS 2000 spilled 840 gallons of IFO 380 heavy fuel oil at the Harley Marine Service Facility in Ediz Hook in Port...
View ArticleChloride Solution, Jackson, AL
At 0830 Central Time, 11NOV12, a 0.10% Chloride solution began leaking from a valve in piping coming off a 110,000 gallon tank which was about 80% full (88,000 gallons of solution). As of 1300, the...
View ArticleDiesel spill, Midnight Chief, San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico
On the morning of December 9th, 176-foot Panamanian ro-ro container ship Midnight Chief spilled, during fueling, approximately 600 gallons of diesel fuel in the San Antonio Channel of San Juan Harbor,...
View ArticleF/V Equity, W.side of Heceta Isl, SE Alaska
Early Friday morning, Dec. 14, Coast Guard MSD Ketchikan called the NOAA AK SSC to report that the 42 ft. F/V Equity apparently sank between Heceta and Emerald Islands on the w. side of Prince of Wales...
View ArticleTB Boston #30, Staten Island, NY
At 0240 EST on December 15, 2012, the NOAA SSC received a call from USCG D1 DRAT saying a barge (Boston 30) carrying 220,000 bbl potential #6 heating oil is spilling into the Kill Van Kull at Mariners...
View ArticleSouthern Recycling Drifting Dry Dock, Gulf of Mexico off LA
On 28Aug12, USCG Sector New Orleans contacted the NOAA SSC for a trajectory for a drifting floating dry dock, 650'long x 137'wide. Dry dock is owned by Southern Recycling, who was towing it to a...
View ArticleAnhydrous ammonia leak, Fisherman's terminal, Seattle
On August 31 at approximately 1445 NOAA SSC was notified of a anhydrous ammonia leak aboard the fish processing vessel PACIFIC PRODUCER located at Fishermen's terminal in Seattle. The leak started on...
View ArticleMODU in Distress, 14nm Offshore, LA
On 17DEC12, MSU Morgan City contact NOAA for scientific support relating to a potential release of 1,000 gl of marine diesel from a MODU in distress. The vessel is located 14nm offshore, west of Marsh...
View ArticleOiled Wildlife, St Lawrence Island, Alaska
The NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator in Alaska was notified by Coast Guard Sector Anchorage on the morning of 7 November 2012 that subsistence hunters in Savoonga and Gamble on St. Lawrence Island,...
View ArticleM/T STENA PRIMORSK, Albany, NY
The SSC was notified by Sector NY of the grounding of the 800 foot M/T Stena Primorsk south of Albany, NY. At this time there is no oil being released. The ballast tank has been breached. No request...
View ArticleTX Petroleum Investment. Co, Breton Sound, LA Gulf of Mexico
On December 26, 2012, 1130am/CST, the USCG requested a NOAA trajectory for a 1BBL (42 gallons)crude oil discharge into Breton Sound on the east side of the Mississippi River Delta. The discharge was...
View ArticleShell Drill Rig Kulluk adrift, NW Gulf of Alaska
The Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk went aground on Sitkalidak Island, Alaska on January 1, 2013. Sitkalidak is an uninhabitated island just south of Kodiak Island. The Kulluk was being towed...
View ArticleF/V Robert Henry, Cape Arago, Oregon
At 0330 January 2, the F/V Robert Henry ran aground at the south tip of Cape Arago near Coos Bay, Oregon. The 39-foot fishing vessel reportedly has 400 gallons of diesel aboard. USCG Sector Columbia...
View ArticleM/T Elia, Baytown, TX
On 13JAN, USCG contacted NOAA SSC about a release of ship-board oily waste from M/T Elias into the Houston Ship Channel due to malfunctioning oily-water separator. The vessel is berthed in Baytown, TX....
View ArticleRuptured Flowline, Pass a Loutre WMA, LA
On 14JAN, USCG Sector New Orleans contacted NOAA SSC about a ruptured flowline in Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area. The release was discovered on 6JAN and initially reported as 4 gl and then...
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