Divers exploring the listing Athos I on Saturday found holes in the
underwater cargo tank closest to the stern, or rear, of the vessel and
in an outside ballast tank...
...While the company maintains that something struck the tanks
underwater, the Coast Guard investigation has not yet confirmed that
scenario, Lt. Buddy Dye said.
More than 300 workers were fanning out along the riverbanks...
http://kyw.com/pennsylvania/PA--OilSpill-dn/resources_news_html
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Is this the work of the Scuba Divers?
Could they have used one of the new small submarines that are on sale for a mere ten million, to fire something?
granny...this is quite close to me so I am hearing all the info. on this story locally.
Anyway, in an interesting report this morning, they said that 70% of the oil necessary for the Northeast U.S. is brought through the Delaware River to processing plants in NJ and PA.
This tanker was double hulled on the top and single hulled on the bottom. This river is so highly travelled by these large tankers, that if there were some type of dangerous underwater debris; the sonar equipment and Coast Guard would have found it by now. And there probably would have been other incidents. IMO someone knew that this tanker was single hulled on the bottom. These tankers are taken up the river from the Delaware Bay by highly skilled river pilots. I can't imagine that if they did hit something it would not have been reported by now.