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April 29 – Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declares a state of emergency. 100,000 feet (30 km) of containment booms were deployed along the coast. [44] By the next day, this nearly doubled to 180,000 feet (55 km) of deployed booms, with an additional 300,000 feet (91 km) staged or being deployed. [45]
The Coast Guard stated on April 22 that they received word of the sinking at approximately 10:21 am. [ 45 ] On September 8, BP published a report that suggested that the ignition source was the released gas entering the air intakes of the diesel generators, and engulfing the deck area where the exhaust outlets for the main generators were ...
By that time, 33 percent of the nation's residents had been fully vaccinated against infection. In January 2022, a group of Kiribati citizens who had been living and travelling abroad as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the pandemic began returned to Kiribati on a chartered plane. Despite negative tests for ...
SuperFerry 14 – On 27 February an Islamist terrorist attack resulted in the sinking of the ferry and the deaths of 116 people. It is regarded as the world's deadliest terrorist attack at sea. [26] [27] 116 2004 Madagascar: Samson – On 7 March the ferry was caught in Cyclone Gafilo off the Madagascan coast when it sank. Two of the 113 aboard ...
The 2004 Taylor Energy oil spill is an ongoing spill located in the Gulf of Mexico, around 11 miles (18 km) off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the result of the destruction of a Taylor Energy oil platform during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. It is the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history. [5]
A 72-year-old American man is reported to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship ahead of its arrival in San Francisco. The incident happened at around 6:50 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, on The Ruby ...
The search for a man who went overboard on a cruise ship heading from Louisiana to Jamaica has been suspended, the U.S. ... Coast Guard crews searched over 5,600 square miles, ...
Kiribati police officers were on patrol with the U.S. Coast Guard as "ship riders" for the first time in a almost a decade, between Feb. 11-16, a U.S. Coast Guard Guam spokeswoman said.