Incidents Gallery

[NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. A high seas boom (OWOCRS) is placed near a wall and pilings on the river. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. The PRESIDENTE RIVERA. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Cleanup workers and equipment around the PRESIDENTE RIVERA. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Two types of sorbents, pads and pompoms, used during the cleanup. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Oiled sorbent used during the cleanup. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Oiled blue crab. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Cleanup workers manually remove thick oil from beach by scraping it off with shovels. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Cleanup workers manually remove oil from beach. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Floating booms are placed around the tanker to contain the leaking oil. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Booms are deployed around the tanker as oil leaks from its damaged hull. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Large tarmats of thick oil on vegetation on the Delaware River banks. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Thick oil stretches along the banks of this marsh. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Tarmats float on the water of the Delaware River. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Tarmats floating on the water of the Delaware River. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Large tarballs are found on beaches. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Oil-covered rocks and tarballs on the shoreline of the Delaware River. [NOAA OR&R Photo] Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Oil forms a band around the shoreline of this marsh habitat on the Delaware River. Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. Boom containing large amounts of oil. [NOAA OR&R Photo] PUERTO RICAN incident, San Francisco Bay, California, October 1984. Bunker fuel leaks from the hull of the PUERTO RICAN into San Francisco Bay. PUERTO RICAN incident, San Francisco Bay, California, October 1984. Large sheen of bunker fuel on the water in San Francisco Bay.

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