Tug Tiger response factsheet 1

Overview:

• The Tug Tiger, a decommissioned 205-foot former Navy tug, sank while moored in Richmond, Calif., on December 11, 2011.

Unified Command:

• Members consist of the Coast Guard, California Department of Fish and Game, and the Port of Richmond.

• Agencies contributing to the response include East Bay Regional Park and Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Current activity:

• Responders continue oil product removal from the Tug Tiger.

• Crews continue to tend the hard boom while removing and replacing the sorbent boom used to collect the oil.

• Responders deployed skimmers.

• Responders place recovered oil into a Baker tank where it will decant (settle and separate) for later quantification and do not have an estimate for oil recovered at this time.

Amount of oil onboard:

• Responders do not currently know how much oil was onboard the Tug Tiger when it sank.

Boom:

• 1,100 feet of boom deployed around the tug and across the opening of the dry dock.

• 3,200 feet protective hard boom deployed at Brook’s Island (373 square-acre park south of Richmond Inner Harbor) as directed by the San Francisco Area Contingency Plan.

Safety:

• Coast Guard has requested vessel and recreational traffic inbound and outbound north of Brook’s Island travel with no wake as a safety measure for responders working in and on the water.

Wildlife:

• No wildlife impacts have been reported at this time. Crews will monitor for wildlife for the duration of the spill cleanup. Anyone seeing oiled wildlife should report it to 877-UCD-OWCN.

Fishery closure:

• None at this time.

Photo and video resources:

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=1476862

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=1476882

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=1476885

https://calspillwatch.dfg.ca.gov/CalSpillWatch/RichmondTugDecember2011/tabid/311/Default.aspx

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