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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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