Barge spill highlights hurricane hazardsNovember Gulf spill due to submerged drilling platform; owners didn’t have lighted buoy at wreck; 167 storm-damaged platforms The Associated Press
A double-hulled tanker barge spilled more than one million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico last year after hitting a submerged drilling platform wrecked by Hurricane Rita, the Coast Guard says.
The Nov. 11 spill off the coasts of Louisiana and Port Arthur, Texas — and the $35 million cleanup a....
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Marker at wreck not lighted At least 167 platforms damaged
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