The US Coast Guard (USCG) has boarded a ship to try to determine whether it was the source of a late August 2007 oil spill off the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico (see OSIR, 6 September 2007). A series of mysterious oil bands were sighted in the water on 30 August 2007. The bands were not a typical oil slick, but instead consisted of clumps of weathered oil that appeared to have been in the water for days to weeks. The size of the spill was estimated at 10,000 gallons (238 barrels). The USCG boarded the Genmar Progress, owned by New York-based General Maritime Corporation, in late September 2007 in Port Arthur, Texas (USA).
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