Some of barge logs wash ashore.Byline: LARRY BACON The Register-Guard Some of the 12,000 logs that spilled from a barge off the coast of Lincoln County Lincoln County is the name of several locations. Canada
"Some of them have even been sucked into the bay," said Ensign Matt Botnen, a pilot at the Coast Guard air base in Astoria. Helicopters from the base have been tracking the logs since the spill, caused when a rogue wave rogue wave n. An unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans. hit the barge about 30 miles west of Cape Foulweather Cape Foulweather is a basalt outcropping 500 feet above the Pacific Ocean on the central coastline of the U.S. state Oregon in Lincoln County south of Depoe Bay. The cape is notable as the first promontory on the northwest coast of New Albion (as the area was then known) to be near Depoe Bay. A tug was towing the barge from Vancouver, B.C. to Eureka, Calif. A large concentration of logs remained off the Long Beach Peninsula The Long Beach Peninsula is an arm of land in western Washington state. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the south by the Columbia River, and the east by Willapa Bay. in the Willapa Bay area, and Botnen said he expects that logs will continue to come ashore for days. The Coast Guard has issued a warning to mariners in the area, and local authorities have advised people on the beach to beware of wave-tossed logs. Botnen did not know if salvage work had begun. The logs had an estimated value of $1 million, and the company that insured them had announced plans to carry out a salvage operation 1. The recovery, evacuation, and reclamation of damaged, discarded, condemned, or abandoned allied or enemy materiel, ships, craft, and floating equipment for reuse, repair, refabrication, or scrapping. 2. . Botnen said the logs, up to about 15 inches in diameter and 40 feet long, were tagged to indicate ownership. Earlier this week, emergency response agencies along the northern Oregon Coast had issued warnings about possible beachings of large concentrations of logs. But steady winds pushed them northward, and Botnen said he was unaware of any coming ashore in Oregon. Concerns about logs going into the Columbia River also were unfounded, he said. |
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