Chevron Oil; Bayou Cassotte, Pascagoula, Mississippi

Bayou Cassotte, Pascagoula, Mississippi | 1989-Sep-18

Initial Notification: At 0828 on September 18, 1989, the DAVE BLACKBURN was dredging Bayou Cassotte about 2-1/2 nautical miles east-southeast of of Pascagoula, Mississippi. One of the dredge's 30 inch-diameter, pointed spuds penetrated a 90-mile long, 20-inch Chevron Oil pipeline, reportedly buried 20 feet beneath the bottom of the ship channel. The pipeline contained 5,000 barrels of Basrah Light crude; the dredge soon observed heavy, dark oil rising about her stern. USCG district 8.