Towboat carrying 89,000 gallons of fuel sinks on Mississippi River

[Corn]

[quote]A towboat filled with thousands of gallons of diesel fuel struck a submerged object and sank on the Mississippi River on Monday.

The Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency and local emergency crews responded, shutting down an eight-mile stretch of the river near Davenport, Iowa, as the vessel began leaking fuel.[/quote]

[url]http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/26/21623146-towboat-carrying-89000-gallons-of-fuel-sinks-on-mississippi-river[/url]

[Zonesylvania]

I hope they remember to bring along samples of that bacterium that eats oil. It might help clean this mess up with less fuss than usual.

[Ybbat]

Oil prices rise a dollar a gallon.

[razzums]

They should be fined a thousand dollars for every gallon.

Get your shit together. Inspect your fucking boats.

[Leestons]

[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;42987750]They should be fined a thousand dollars for every gallon.

Get your shit together. Inspect your fucking boats.[/QUOTE]
"struck a submerged object" how would inspecting your boat prevent that exactly?

[Omali]

[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;42987750]They should be fined a thousand dollars for every gallon.

Get your shit together. Inspect your fucking boats.[/QUOTE]

I know for a fact that they always check their ships for submerged objects before sailing. It had to be something else that caused the wreck.

[muffinmastah]

[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;42987750]They should be fined a thousand dollars for every gallon.

Get your shit together. Inspect your fucking boats.[/QUOTE]

Fuck off, seriously. This happening to a boatowner is a fucking nightmare of the fed flocking around you. One guy's boat sank here at the dock (hose burst) and it turned into several thousand dollars of expense and dealing with the EPA and other random agencies that want your money. Nobody wants their boats to sink, private or corporate, and extreme fines like that don't help anyone.

[oxcjae.]

Thanks iowa we really needed more loose oil on louisiana shores

[betterthanyou]

[QUOTE=muffinmastah;42987862]Fuck off, seriously. This happening to a boatowner is a fucking nightmare of the fed flocking around you. One guy's boat sank here at the dock (hose burst) and it turned into several thousand dollars of expense and dealing with the EPA and other random agencies that want your money. Nobody wants their boats to sink, private or corporate, and extreme fines like that don't help anyone.[/QUOTE]

except the recuperation efforts for the environment, which could be important or not depending on how you look at things

[J.C.DentonUNATCO]

The Ohio and Mississippi are unfortunately already so polluted that if Huckleberry Finn took a joyride down it today he'd come back to shore with an extra limb.

This shit ain't gonna help.

[muffinmastah]

[QUOTE=betterthanyou;42988183]except the recuperation efforts for the environment, which could be important or not depending on how you look at things[/QUOTE]

The funny (not really) part about it is that absolutely no fluids leaked from that boat, yet they demanded he pay for the water to be pumped out in 55 gallon drums. Just starting the engines normally would pollute more than the boat sinking. The hose that bust was the water intake for one of the engines, the oil and diesel remained in the tanks. The boat didn't even sink far enough to wet the engines before the harbor patrol came along and stopped it from going down farther.

[CubeManv2]

Now its a submarine carrying fuel in the Mississippi

[Major_Vice]

I'll need to look at the river in the next few weeks and see if it has a nice glistening shine to it.