Tanker runs aground... Coast Guard responds

In this video by the U.S. Coast Guard, Cmdr. James Elliot, commanding officer of Marine Safety Unit Galveston, discusses the response to the grounding of the tank ship Yasa Golden Dardanelles, Feb. 26, 2009.

The Yasa Golden Dardanelles had 26 crewmembers on board, and was carrying 621,000 barrels of low-sulphur fuel oil when it became grounded Feb. 20, 2009.

The 800-foot tank ship Yasa Golden Dardanelles was successfully refloated at 12:08 a.m., Feb. 24, 2009.

Coast Guard personnel from Marine Safety Unit Galveston oversaw the lightering operation, which began Feb. 23, 2009. The operation was successful in transferring more than 80,000 barrels of oil to the lightering vessel SPT Crusader. The transfer was conducted safely, ensuring personnel were not harmed, no pollution was released into the environment, and no damage sustained to either vessel.

(U.S. Coast Guard video/ PADET Houston)

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[r880910]

I was the Mooring Master on the lightering vessel SPT Crusader and with the whole team at Skaugen PetroTrans ,the Lightering Support Vessel SPT Defender and the USCG, the salvage oil transfer was successful and the vessel was re-floated after the SPT Crusader separated from the Yasa Golden Dardanenelles

Dave Edwards

MM Skaugen PetroTrans

[VERT531CA]

Hey, we went up there last month on the 26th i believe, I am from the Chest Puller Battalion and we visited the ATON unit...

what unit are you?

[VERT531CA]

Oh ok, thanks!

[pkelley7777]

The orange ship is called a lightering ship. Oil was pumped from the grounded ship into the lightering ship, to make it weigh less. If you look closely, you can see the black hose connecting the two ships. That is the hose that the oil is flowing through.

[pkelley7777]

22 miles off the coast of Galveston Texas

[pkelley7777]

Adm. Thad Allen

[madvan212]

Where did the tanker run aground? In the Middle of the GOM ?

[arkansasdivision]

I am a part of the us naval sea cadets and my base is on one of the coast guard bases in yurbobuana island and i want to the thank the coast gurad for letting us use this thier base. I love the coast guard!!

[military123456]

whos the current commandent of the coast guard

[bheffley2002]

I thank the Coast Guard for being ready to respond to disasters.