Tanker ship strikes Bay Bridge tower

[Bosonic]

Source: ABC

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Coast Guard is investigating a tanker ship that struck one of the towers of the Bay Bridge.

Caltrans confirms the tanker brushed up against one of the Bay Bridge towers sometime Monday morning.

The wooden bumpers on echo tower, the closest tower to Treasure Island heading east, appear to show some damage and the hull of the ship also appears to show some surface damage. The tanker does not appear to be leaking.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8945133

[Scuba]

1. Spin alert: "brushed up against" is Big Oil's euphemism for "hit".

[me b zola]

4. Pretty much...

[JoePhilly]

9. Come on, it just "kissed" it gently, like a ship passing in the night.

[Richardo]

2. Captain Hazlewood, is that you?

[CreekDog]

3. .

[Brother Buzz]

5. Performed as advertised

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Well, some doofus just fired himself.

[Turbineguy]

7. Here's the vessel

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=538002271

[Brother Buzz]

8. Latest modification to the hull

Empty, double hulled. We dodged the bullet this time.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. That could have been a hell of a lot worse.

I wonder if we can assume a puncture, since that chunk of the piling bumper is stuck to it?

[Brother Buzz]

12. Timbering, indeed, broached the outer hull

I wonder how the inner hull fared.

[Xithras]

11. Why was an oil tanker south of the Bay Bridge?

I thought that all of the oil facilities were in the North Bay around Richmond and Martinez?

[Brother Buzz]

13. Delivering bunker fuel to the port of Oakland?

You ask a valid question and I'm just tossing out an idea.

[LawnKorn]

14. Fossil fuels present more dangers than just global warming

They are catastrophic on the environment burned or unburned.