Oil tanker gets go-ahead
NZPA-AP San Diego The damaged oil tanker Exxon Valdez cleared its final inspection yesterday and was given permission to enter San Diego Bay for repairs. The tanker, which spilled 41 million litres of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound when it went aground on March 24, was originally to enter under its own
power, but at the last moment tugboats were ordered to push it. A Coastguard official, Larry Solberg, and Tom Gillette, an Exxon official, said the switch to tugboats was. at the request of a state water-quality-control official who wanted the ship under greater control.
Mr Solberg said a final inspection by remote-con-trolled underwater
camera showed the hull free of the dangling steel plates that had prevented the tanker’s entry to the harbour for weeks. For the last three weeks, the ship has stayed about 80km from San Diego after initially being turned away as a pollution risk. Its original entry to the bay was prevented when officials spotted a ■ slick coming from it.
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