The local paper here in NJ reports that the skipper and pilot on the tanker
that leaked up to 470 K gallons of heavy crude into the Delaware had
apparently done everything right on their trip up the river. They seem to
have stayed right in the channel all the way to the refinery docks, where a
pair of tugs took over to nudge the 700 foot tanker alongside. Then, in
some yet unexplained fashion, a hole was torn into the single-hulled vessel
and the leaks began.

The last sentence in the article reads: "One culprit [that may have caused
the gash in the hull] could be an 11 ton propeller that fell off and Army
Corps dredge on April."

Well, I'd certainly look into that possibility, fellas.
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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/