Spills

Panamanian barge #S-2009; glass break water, guam

NOAAORR-6410

issued
1986-09-26 00:00Z
status
cancelled 1986-10-10 00:00Z
self-cancels
1986-10-10 00:00Z
authority
NOAA OR&R
sea
Philippine Sea
position
13.452, 144.761
source
incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z

Original warning text

Panamanian Barge #S-2009; Glass Break Water, Guam.
Glass Break Water, Guam.
1. On August 26, 1986 the Panamanian barge #S-2009 broke loose from its tow with the tugboats I Vice and Husky and hit a coral reef at Glass Break Water, Guam, a U.S. Trust Territory. The accident spilled the barge's entire cargo of 70 20-foot sea containers with 215 500-pound bottles of butane, twenty 250-pound cylinders of chlorine, forty-five 70-pound cylinders of medical oxygen, and twelve 105-pound cylinders of acetylene. The U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team, who arrived on scene on August 27, recovered some of the cargo from the sea. However, high winds and heavy seas precluded further operations, with a large percentage of the emptied material remaining at sea. USCG district 11.
2. COMMODITY: BUTANE, CHLORINE, MEDICAL OXYGEN, ACETYLENE.
3. POSITION 13.452N 144.761E. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6410: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6410

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