More shipping containers that washed off a ship in stormy weather on Friday have been spotted floating off the coast, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Tuesday morning.
A Coast Guard plane early Tuesday morning spotted two additional containers from the container ship Manoa, which lost a dozen of the 40-foot steel containers Friday night just outside the Golden Gate on its way to Seattle.
One container from the ship already washed ashore at Baker Beach in San Francisco this weekend, along with a large number of plastic crates and Styrofoam packing material.
Lt. Jake Urrutia said Tuesday morning’s flight spotted what appeared to be a partially submerged container just south of the Golden Gate Bridge and a second container around 1 mile south of the Pacifica Pier, close to shore. The containers have been reported to Matson Navigation Co., the company responsible for the Manoa and its stray containers.
Urrutia said it was unclear whether the container spotted Tuesday morning near Pacifica was the same as one that was reported near or to the south of Mori Point on Monday.
While the Coast Guard on Monday confirmed that a container had been sighted in that area, Matson spokesman Keoni Wagner said the company’s spotters had not been able to locate it. He suggested it could have since submerged or drifted away.
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