Document Number: 2625
 

Fifth District
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Date: Sept. 30, 2008
Contact: 609-677-2204

Tanker aground near Philadelphia
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The Tuchkov Bridge, a 600-foot Liberian flagged tanker, is anchored in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal near Reedy Point Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, after it ran aground with 21 people aboard Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, near the St. George Bridge 30 miles south of Philadelphia.

Members of the Coast Guard, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the New Jersey State Police responded to the grounding.

(Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Oyler)

The Tuchkov Bridge, a 600-foot Liberian flagged tanker, is anchored in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal near Reedy Point Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, after it ran aground with 21 people aboard Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, near the St. George Bridge 30 miles south of Philadelphia.

Members of the Coast Guard, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the New Jersey State Police responded to the grounding.

(Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Oyler)

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