Cause of oil spill still pending

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Cause of oil spill still pending

Monday, December 6, 2004
By STEVE LEVINE Courier-Post Staff
PHILADELPHIA

Officials investigating the Delaware River oil spill emphasized Sunday they have neither determined nor discounted any causes.

Media reports over the weekend suggested pilot error or negligence had been ruled out, but that is not the case, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer Russ Tippets.

'That's still under investigation,' Tippets said. 'I don't know where they would have gotten that information, but it wasn't from the Coast Guard.'

A leak was discovered from the Cyprus-flagged Athos I as it prepared to dock at a CITGO refinery in Paulsboro on Nov. 26.

Divers found two gashes in the tanker's hull, including one that is six feet long.

There has been speculation that the Greek-owned tanker might have struck a 14-foot propeller missing since it was dropped by an Army Corps of Engineers' dredge boat in April."Cause of oil spill still pending

Monday, December 6, 2004

By STEVE LEVINE
Courier-Post Staff
PHILADELPHIA

Officials investigating the Delaware River oil spill emphasized Sunday they have neither determined nor discounted any causes.

Media reports over the weekend suggested pilot error or negligence had been ruled out, but that is not the case, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer Russ Tippets.

"That's still under investigation," Tippets said. "I don't know where they would have gotten that information, but it wasn't from the Coast Guard."

A leak was discovered from the Cyprus-flagged Athos I as it prepared to dock at a CITGO refinery in Paulsboro on Nov. 26.

Divers found two gashes in the tanker's hull, including one that is six feet long.

There has been speculation that the Greek-owned tanker might have struck a 14-foot propeller missing since it was dropped by an Army Corps of Engineers' dredge boat in April. Read More...

Cause of oil spill still pending