U.S. Coast Guard reports no visible pollution
threat from USS Port Royal grounding incident
HONOLULU -- Pollution investigators on an overflight Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, determined there was no visible marine pollution threat at the site of a grounded U.S. Navy vessel. Pollution experts from the U.S. Coast Guard and State of Hawaii reported a sheen of one nautical mile by 100 yards wide in the area approximately a half mile southwest of the Honolulu International Airport's Reef Runway. It was the site where the USS Port Royal ran aground last Thursday. Investigators were airborne at sunrise today aboard a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter after the Port Royal was freed several hours before. This photo shows the oil spill recovery vessel Clean Islands underway next to the slight sheen.
U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO/Lt. Stacey Crecy
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