Coast Guard responds to collision near Port Aransas

May 2, 2012

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard is responding to a collision between a mobile offshore drilling unit and a tanker vessel Wednesday, near Port Aransas.

Watchstanders at Sector Corpus Christi received a report at 7:25 a.m., that the Rowan EXL-1, a mobile offshore drilling unit, and the 750-foot tanker vessel FR8 Pride had collided in the Aransas Channel, near buoy 3.

The FR8 Pride was heading inbound in the Aransas Pass Channel when it reportedly lost propulsion and drifted into the Rowan EXL-1.

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