Investigators suspect a vessel's anchor may have caused a pipeline to rupture and spill more than 140,000 gallons of oil in Southern California waters
Cleanup boats floated a mile-long chain of booms to help slow the spread of the shimmering spill that left black ribbons and gobs of oil along the shoreline. Dwayne Brady and his small dog, Killer, watched crews along the beach combat the spread of oil.
Along with pinpointing the cause of the leak, the criminal and civil investigations will try to determineThe first emergency call came in Friday at 6:13 p.m., and it wasn't from Amplify. A ship had noticed a sheen in the water, according to a federal report on the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services spill report website.
“I said that afternoon that something smelled strange,” Shesat said. “I don’t think any of us could have predicted it was this. We all thought it had to be the jets.” "I’m just eyeballing a map," Simpson said. "But it does look that’s about where some are speculating a cargo ship dragged an anchor across" the pipeline.
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