Unified Command Tug Tiger Richmond Incident factsheet 2

Unified Command Tug Tiger Richmond Incident

Contact: Date: December 13, 2011

Joint Information Center

(916) 531-4194

Tug Tiger Response Factsheet #2

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 Parks 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.
Daily USCG helicopter overflights

Equipment and personnel on scene:

Two skimmers
Two skiffs
One Baker tank (holding tank for recovered oil)
One vacuum truck
55 personnel from USCG, DFG, and contractors Global Salvage and Diving and National Response Corporation Environmental Services

Quantities:

Boom:

1,250 feet of boom deployed around the tug and across the opening of the dry dock.
3,350 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:

Photo and video resources

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