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Offshore sandy hook, nj

F/V Four Daughters; Offshore Sandy Hook, Nj · NOAAORR-1080

issued
2003-07-17 00:00Z
status
cancelled 2003-07-31 00:00Z
self-cancels
2003-07-31 00:00Z
authority
NOAA OR&R
sea
North Atlantic Ocean
position
39.991, -73.188
vessel
F/V FOUR DAUGHTERS
source
incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z

Original warning text

F/V Four Daughters; Offshore Sandy Hook, NJ.
Offshore Sandy Hook, NJ.
1. The 86 foot fishing vessel (F/V) Four Daughters was reported to have sank 52 nautical miles SE of Sandy Hook NJ at around 0230 hours that night of 17 July, 2003. When the vessel sank it was reported to have a capacity of some 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel. At 1600 hours of 17 July the Coast Guard's Fifth Coast Guard District "M" staff requested from NOAA a trajectory for the diesel fuel that might be released from the tanks of the F/V Four Daughters. By 1715 hours NOAA provided to the Fifth Coast Guard District initial trajectory and weather reports. NOAA suggested that no diesel products were expected to contact the shoreline from a release from a sunken vessel at this distance offshore. NOAA's report also stated that if oil did leak diesel from the vessel that "we would expect some rainbow to silver sheen to extend for several hundred yards downwind of the location where the vessel [...]
2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: DIESEL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 8000 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 39.991N 073.188W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 1080: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/1080

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