Written by
Nick Blenkey
A dive tender takes collected particles from divers and brings it aboard the Bonnie G for disposal off Cyril E. King Airport, St. Thomas, Oct. 15, 2023. [U.S. Coast Guard photo]
U.S. Coast Guard Southeast experiences that crews responding to the Bonnie G grounding incident performed profitable salvage and dive operations over this previous weekend off Cyril E. King Airport, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
The 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel, initially delivered in 1981 as an OSV and managed by West Palm Seashore, Fla., based mostly MMS Americas LLC., grounded there October 4 throughout Tropical Storm Philippe, when all 12 individuals on board needed to be rescued.
Over the weekend, Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration specialists accomplished their marine environmental evaluation and decided response operations usually are not impacting coral within the space. Divers deployed, Sunday, to recuperate particles on the on the ocean ground. Roughly, 2,500 kilos of particles was recovered.
On Monday, divers recovered the vessel’s anchor, which had damaged off in the course of the storm.
Air pollution responders have continued working to take away any oil contained within the vessel. As of Oct. 15, roughly 2,100 gallons of contained oil was eliminated. No sheen or discharge is presently seen outdoors the vessel.
Donjon Smit and the accountable celebration are bringing within the offshore provide vessel Harvey Challenger from Port Fourchon, La. It’s scheduled to rendezvous with the Bonnie G on Oct. 22 to start eradicating the gas.
The Bonnie G can maintain a most of 119,450 gallons of gas, and the utmost oil is 4,219 gallons. The vessel was carrying six vehicles, a truck, a trailer and two pallets of cargo.
The Bonnie G grounding response incident commander and response crews are monitoring storm system Make investments 94L and heavy climate plans are being ready.
