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"The ferry Natchez is surrounded by boom Friday, July 25, 2008, at downtown New Orleans. The motor vessel Tintomara and a tug and barge collided Wednesday, July 23, 2008, spilling nearly 420,000 gallons of oil."

Notes: Visibile on land is a portion of the French Quarter, with the Jackson Brewery complex at right and a piece of Woldenberg at left.
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Source U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher D. McLaughlin, via Coast Guard News site [1], full photo at [2]
Author Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher D. McLaughlin
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