Crews have finished draining all of the fuel from an overturned cargo ship three months after it capsized off the coast of Georgia, the team overseeing salvage operations said Thursday.
Divers and other workers removed more than 320,000 gallons of oil mixed with water aboard the South Korean ship Golden Ray. The vessel tipped over onto its side Sept. 8 shortly after leaving the Port of Brunswick and remains beached about 70 miles south of Savannah.
“The completion of the fuel removal allows the Unified Command to move on to our ultimate goal of safely removing the wreck of the Golden Ray,” said Coast Guard Cmdr. Matt Baer said in a news release. “Removal of the vessel will be a highly complex and challenging operation.”
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