An anchor from a ship may have dislodged and ruptured the oil pipeline.
In the wake of the oil spill plaguing Southern California’s coastlines, the U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the source, specifically whether or not an anchor from a ship damaged the pipeline.
The Los Angeles Times reports that an anchor from a large commercial ship may have dropped in the wrong location and damaged one of natural gas drilling company Amplify’s oil pipelines in the process.
An unnamed official told reporters that the anchor could have dragged the pipeline nearly 150 feet from its initial location, and thereafter caused it to rupture. Coast Guard officials will investigate this possibility, which, if true, could shift liability for the spill from Amplify to the commercial ship.
The rupture of the pipeline occurred nearly four miles off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif. More 126,000 gallons of oil have been spilled into the Pacific Ocean since the spill occurred on Saturday, Oct. 2. Oil slick has washed up ashore in Long Beach and Newport Beach, killing native flora and fauna and shuttering beaches for potentially weeks.
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