Green 4 St. Patricks and 4 The Golden Ray

     

     The folks preparing to cut the Golden Ray auto transport ship into pieces to be hauled to junkyards will use a green dye on Saint Patrick's Day to color the water around the shipwreck off the coast of Brunswick, Georgia.

"St. Simons Sound Incident Response Unified Command to Conduct Dye Test

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – The Unified Command leading the response to the motor vessel Golden Ray announced today it will conduct a dye test in the St. Simons Sound on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

The nontoxic, water-soluble dye will be used to determine how far potential contaminants travel within the St. Simons Sound System. This exercise is meant to give a representation of the path any potential oil discharges may take when the Golden Ray is cut into sections during the operation’s next phase.

The dye is the same fluorescein disodium salt commonly used in cities including Tampa, Fla., and Boston to dye rivers in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day."

Cars underwater in the Golden Ray

There are several thousand new but now thoroughly contaminated cars on board the ship. The ship is owned by Hyundai, but the manufacture of the cars on board is unclear. The only U.S. Hyundai plant in in Montgomery. Officials there say there were Kia, but no Hyundai vehicles from the plant on board.