When she sank, the Coast Trader was carrying more than 7,000 barrels of heavy Bunker C fuel. “This is what we call a voyage of opportunity, since the Nautilus will basically drive right over the Coast Trader,” Delgado said. Now the history of the Coast Trader is being rewritten as its resting place, complete with a potentially environmentally dangerous supply of Bunker C fuel, has been found in Canadian waters. In life, Coast Trader was a nondescript old coastal freighter that plied the west coast of the U.S., ferrying goods between Washington, Oregon and California. The Coast Trader, a 324-foot-long freighter, was chartered by the U.S. Army to carry a cargo of 1,250 tons of newsprint to San Francisco.

Source: National Post June 01, 2016 15:56 UTC