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Coast Guard: 1,200-foot ship dragged California oil pipeline
ABC News ^ | 17 October 2021 | MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press

Posted on 10/18/2021 12:52:34 AM PDT by blueplum

Investigators believe a 1,200-foot (366-meter) cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude.

A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT just hours after the massive ship arrived this weekend off the Port of Long Beach...

...The DANIT's operator, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, is headquartered in Switzerland and has a fleet of 600 vessels and more than 100,000 workers, according to the company....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: danit; longbeach; oilspill; transoceanic

1 posted on 10/18/2021 12:52:34 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

The Biden caused oil spill


2 posted on 10/18/2021 1:04:01 AM PDT by Rocko Jack
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To: blueplum
a fleet of 600 vessels and more than 100,000 workers

Given that there are very few crew on these ships, I wonder what the other odd 95,000 are doing.

3 posted on 10/18/2021 1:57:55 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

Ask any sailor.


4 posted on 10/18/2021 3:34:30 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: Moltke

Ask any sailor.


5 posted on 10/18/2021 3:34:54 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: blueplum

Crews number 20-30 people.

6 posted on 10/18/2021 4:12:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: blueplum

What actually was wrong here? Should ships not be dragging anchor? Perhaps that can’t be avoided in rough seas.

Should pipelines be allowed under areas of water that are filled with large anchored ships?

How about having pre-set anchors with their cables to the surface attached to a buoys. Ships could tie to a buoy rather than drop their own anchor.


7 posted on 10/18/2021 4:59:40 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Rocko Jack

#emptyshelvesbiden oil spill.


8 posted on 10/18/2021 5:54:01 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdz oncmccRthym,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: cymbeline

Your kidding, right? All of your suggestions make good sense.


9 posted on 10/18/2021 7:09:22 AM PDT by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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To: blueplum

Now the ships are drag racing in California.


10 posted on 10/18/2021 7:12:12 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueplum

Why would a ship drop it’s anchor during Biden’s boat parade?.


11 posted on 10/18/2021 8:54:25 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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