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Guantánamo-bound barge loses cargo into ocean
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/05/3269166/guantanamo-bound-barge-dumps-cargo.html#morerGuantánamo-bound barge loses cargo into ocean
Posted on Wednesday, 03.06.13
By CAROL ROSENBERG
All 22 shipping containers that toppled off a U.S. Navy contract barge bound for the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, no longer presenting a seafaring hazard, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
Moreover, the small amount of hazardous material in the containers is so deep that it shouldn’t present an environmental hazard.
“I wouldn’t want to be some organism down there on the bottom of the ocean at 1,000 feet ... with a container sitting on you,” Capt David McClellan, chief of the prevention department at Coast Guard sector Miami said Wednesday afternoon.
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Hazardous waste was definitely lost in the accident, McClellan said, including compressed gasses, combustible liquids, aerosols, refrigerants, batteries and flammable adhesives.