D8 External Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard
Photo Release
**Photo Release** Unified Command continues clean-up effort for Port Arthur oil spill
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PORT ARTHUR, Texas - The Unified Command continues its clean-up efforts Monday. The efforts began Saturday after a collision between the tank ship Eagle Otome, an 807-foot Singapore flagged tank ship, and the towing vessel Dixie Vengeance and the two barges that it was pushing. The collision resulted in an estimated at 462,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Sabine Neches Waterway. For more photos of today's clean-up efforts, click on the photograph below.
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