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October 26, 2009
Historic tug salvaged from San Francisco Bay
Global Diving & Salvage worked with the U.S. Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Game to recover the vessel and prevent more damage to the environment.
Photo by aerialsondemand.com, courtesy of Global
[enlarge]Global Diving contracted for the services of the Left Coast Lifter, a shear-leg crane, to assist in refloating the vintage tug, USS Wenonah, in San Francisco Bay.
When the vintage 100-foot World War II Tug, USS Wenonah, took on water and sank last August in San Francisco Bay, she created an oil spill and a continued threat to the environmental due to remaining hydrocarbons and other hazardous materials on board.
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