"Responders install gates to the Environmental Protection Barrier (EPB) around the Golden Ray wreck site. The EPB is a 1-mile custom designed barrier made of high density polyethylene pipe, 5-foot square mesh debris netting and ocean boom coupled to pilings and able to rise and fall with tidal action. The EPB is a part of a multi-layer environmental protection system. St. Simons Sound incident photo."
With the huge crane positioned over the capsized auto-carrier ship, the process of cutting the vessel into eight pieces can begin soon. The progress will take about two moths, and it will be messy. As many as a hundred of the more than four-thousand formerly brand new, mostly GM cars on the ship are expected to fall into the water with each slice made.
Each of the vehicles, of course, include batteries, oil, and other parts that workers expect to trap with the EPB.
(Photos are from the St. Simons Sound Incident Command)
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