Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard PADET Texas | 03.28.2014
Boom is put in place to prevent oil from the Texas City collision from affecting environmentally-sensitive areas in Matagorda Bay, March 28, 2014. Approximately 150 response personnel have placed more than 16,000 feet of boom. (Unified response photo)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard PADET Texas | 03.28.2014
Boom is put in place to prevent oil from the Texas City collision from affecting environmentally-sensitive areas in Matagorda Bay, March 28, 2014. Approximately 150 response personnel have placed more than 16,000 feet of boom. (Unified response photo)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard PADET Texas | 08.06.2013
Petty Officer 2nd Class Clarence Rivera visually measures a tar ball during the clean up of a 20-mile stretch of land from Padre Island National Seashore to the beaches of Port Aransas, Aug. 6, 2013. Beachgoers contacted Coast Guard Station Port Aransas Sunday to report that tar patties were washing ashore. Sector Corpus Christi deployed personnel from their Incident Management Division to......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard PADET Texas | 08.06.2013
Coast Guard members are working with Miller Environmental and the Texas General Land Office specialists to clean up naturally occurring tar balls discovered on 20-mile stretch of land from Padre Island National Seashore to the beaches of Port Aransas, Aug. 6, 2013. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi deployed personnel from their Incident Management Division to respond. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)...