DATE: February 9, 2009 1:24:48 PM HST
PHOTO RELEASE: Slight oil sheen from USS Port Royal grounding incident burns away, Feb. 9, 2009, 2
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.
U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO/Lt. Stacey Crecy
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