When Detectives Kenneth Hasko and C. J. Westbrook cruised from Tarrytown to Cortlandt one recent Friday, their one stop involved rescuing a couple in a new $40,000 boat with a dead battery, stuck on a sunken barge.
But by late morning, the firefighters had contained the flames at the site of the sunken barge and the ExxonMobil dock, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other officials said later that there was no evidence of terrorism and that the cause, while still under investigation, appeared to be accidental.
Empty Doritos bags float across the top of the water and rusty cleats attached to sunken barges poke out of its murky waters.
There are also what the scientists call "manmade discards" from the Hudson's busy shipping channel — everything from sunken coal barges and railroad cars to what the scientists guessed was household garbage.
The team estimates that more than 260 sunken ships including tankers, tugs, barges, and patrol boats clog the local waters.
Reef advocates and state legislators watched from a nearby ferry, sipping Champagne and snacking on roast beef sandwiches, as the cars kerplunked into the water, where they would soon be keeping company with two sunken tug boats and a barge.
The two energy companies behind the project, Shell and TransCanada, argued that the terminal — a quarter-mile-long barge with a sunken pipeline attached — was critically important to meeting the region's growing energy demand, supplying fuel that was cleaner than oil and coal.
A10 Struggle to Raise Sub An international team of divers was continuing preparations to lift the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk, while a barge to hoist it to the surface was waiting out a storm near the Barents Sea coast.
An international team of divers was continuing preparations today to lift the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk, while a barge to hoist it to the surface was waiting out a storm near the Barents Sea coast.
KANSAS CITY, Mo .— Even as the summer swelter has given way to frost, nearly two-thirds of the country remains in a drought, with forest fires still burning, winter crops choking in parched soil and barges nearly scraping the mucky bottoms of sunken rivers.
In 1998, the historic status of the barges was a concern for the Port Authority of Bridgeport Harbor, as the sunken ships interfered with a billion-dollar redevelopment project.
