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United States Coast Guard maritime casualty investigators , along with representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board, addressed this Saturday the container ship Mediterranean Shipping Company DANIT in the port of Long Beach.
The investigation is related to the oil spill that occurred in early October off the coast of Southern California .
The chief of investigations in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Lt. Cmdr. the United States Coast Guard Branden Rostad, determined that MSC DANIT is related to an “anchor drag incident” that occurred on 25 of January of 2021 when severe weather conditions occurred in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Lt. Cmdr indicated that This incident occurred near the underwater pipeline that was later discovered to have caused the oil to leak off the beaches of Huntington Beach on October 2 .
The US Coast Guard listed MSC DANIT, the vessel’s operator and the vessel owner Dordellas Finance Coroporation as stakeholders in the marine casualty investigation, was reported in a statement .
“Stakeholder designations provide the owner and operator of MSC DANIT the opportunity to be represented by a lawyer, to cross-examine and cross-examine witnesses, and to call relevant witnesses. the investigation “, was added in the document.
The institution indicated that is still in ongoing oil spill investigation off the coast of Ora County nge , as well as multiple pipeline and vessel scenarios of additional interest.
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