Investigators have said they are looking into whether a ship’s anchor caused the pipe breach, but officials did not provide more information about that probe on Tuesday.
It is not clear what caused the damage to the pipeline, which allowed tens of thousands of gallons of crude to spill into the waters off Orange County. Gusty winds created higher seas, moving the oil. On Monday afternoon, oil spill monitoring and cleanup operations were hampered when a storm system moved over the region, producing rain, thunder and lightning. “It was bad, and the oil was doing considerable damage.” “It was a frightening realization,” he said. Members of a Coast Guard flight crew look out the rear hatch of an airplane as it flies over the Orange County coastline in search of oil on the water.īut later in the day as he reviewed the footage, he saw the large area of oil along the coastline. “I was a little perplexed by it,” he added. “We saw some oil on the sand and some oil sheen.” “We really didn’t see a lot of oil in the water,” he said. Keith decided to fly over the disaster area with a friend and take some video footage to upload on his YouTube channel, Wolficorn. “It’s one of the many assets that the Coast Guard has to assist our local partners to help mitigate environmental disasters,” he said.Īt home in Los Angeles, private pilot Bryan Keith was reading about the oil spill when he decided to look for aerial footage of the spill but was unable to find anything. Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier. Since Saturday, when the Amplify Energy oil spill was reported, the fixed-wing aircraft has flown daily, relaying information about the size and direction of the oil spill to the command center and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, according to U.S. In the back of the plane with the cargo door open, two flight mechanics looked for oil sheens on the dark teal ocean while reporters on board watched. Coast Guard aircraft, began its flight along the Orange County coastline. Tuesday when the Alenia C-27J Spartan, a U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
