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Grounded K-SEA Barge Successfully Re-floated |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 21:48 |
By SUZETTE PORTER
Article published on Friday, April 4, 2008![]() | ![[Image]](http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_images/040408_fpg-01.jpg) | | Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard | | Tugs work to free a barge stuck on a sandbar near Egmont Key. |
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ST. PETERSBURG – A barge and its tug that had been stuck on a sandbar near Egmont Key since Wednesday evening are free.
According
to Mike Hanson, spokesman for K-Sea Operating Partnership LP,
offloading of 20,000 barrels of oil Friday afternoon lightened the
barge enough that it was able to move away from the sandbar into deeper
water under its own power.
The 138-foot tug Yankee was
transporting a 441-foot barge, both owned by K-Sea, from Houston to
Tampa when it ran aground on a sand bar about 5:45 p.m. on April 2. The
double-hulled barge was carrying 119,000 barrels fuel oil.
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