Coast Guard: 1,200-foot ship dragged California oil pipeline

Coast Guard, NTSB Investigators Board Anchor-Dragging Ship In Long Beach - Los Angeles Sentinel

U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators boarded the container ship MSC DANIT, Saturday in the Port of Long Beach. Prior to the visit, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad, chief of investigations in L.A. and Long Beach determined that the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) DANIT was involved in an anchor-dragging incident on Jan. 25, 2021, during a weather event that impacted the ports of Los Ange…

Mega ship destroys California pipeline

BIG BEAR: 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 Bea…

Coast Guard boards ship 'in interest' to oil spill investigation

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct 7, 2021 file photo, Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach in Corona Del Mar after an oil spill in Newport Beach, Calif. California's uneasy relationship with the oil industry is being tested again by the latest spill to foul beaches and kill birds and fish off Orange County. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) Ringo H.W. Chiu/APCoast Guard boards ship 'in interest' to oil spill investigatio…

Coast Guard believes 1,200-foot ship dragged California oil pipeline

Investigators believe a massive 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.A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT just hours after it arrived this weekend off the Port of Long Beach. That's the same area where the leak was discov…

Coast Guard: 1,200-foot ship dragged California oil pipeline

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- 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 th…

1,200-foot ship dragged California oil pipeline, Coast Guard says

The accident just a few miles off Huntington Beach in Orange County, California, fouled beaches and wetlands and led to temporary closures for cleanup work.