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Oil Freighter Trapped by Hurricane Ike
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A freighter hauling petroleum coke and carrying 22 people is stranded about 90 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, in the path of Hurricane Ike.
The Coast Guard initially said stormy seas would prevent aircraft or vessels from reaching the ship. Ike’s 105 mph winds could cause 50-foot waves.
But by mid-morning Friday, the Coast Guard was looking at possible ways to safely rescue the crew.
The Coast Guard is in constant communication with the ship via Marine radio.
The freighter is called the Antalina, and is registered out of Cyprus and owned by Perovo Shipping Ltd. The freighter’s operator is TEO Shipping Corporation of Athens, Greece.
Petroleum coke is a carbonaceous solid derived from oil refinery coker units or other cracking processes. If the coke is spilled into the ocean, there could be ecological consequences.
Hurricane Ike is the third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
As of Friday afternoon Ike was moving westward in the Gulf of Mexico. It is predicted to make landfall in Texas somewhere near Galveston Island early on Saturday morning as a hurricane, and then to swing north into Arkansas as a tropical storm and northeast into Kentucky as a tropical depression.
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