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Long island sound

Aconcagua Grounding; Long Island Sound · NOAAORR-6745

issued
1990-04-11 00:00Z
status
cancelled 1990-04-25 00:00Z
self-cancels
1990-04-25 00:00Z
authority
NOAA OR&R
sea
North Atlantic Ocean
position
40.867, -73.440
source
incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z

Original warning text

ACONCAGUA Grounding; Long Island Sound.
Long Island Sound.
1. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS BASED ON THE MOST CURRENT DATA PROVIDED TO NOAA. - Important note concerning the NOAA "HOTLINE" Communications System: . . Please note that this system is used for NOAA internal communications and the reports are put in chronologically. There is NO corrective "post editing" of the reports. As a result of this, early reports may have information that later proved to be incorrect. Sometimes these errors are corrected in a later report, but sometimes corrections are made over the phone or in-person, and no correcting message is entered. This reflects the use of this system as a real-time spill communications system and is not intended to be an event-log. Please keep this in mind when reading HOTLINE reports for this incident. . If you have any problems with this system please contact the SSC on watch at 206-526-6317. At 0700 the SSC was notified of a potential [...]
2. COMMODITY: BUNKER C OIL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 1000 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 40.867N 073.440W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6745: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6745

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