{"id":14437,"date":"2020-07-28T12:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/after-tropical-storm-hanna-ports-reopen-and-cleanup-begins\/14437\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:21:30","slug":"after-tropical-storm-hanna-ports-reopen-and-cleanup-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/after-tropical-storm-hanna-ports-reopen-and-cleanup-begins\/14437\/","title":{"rendered":"After Tropical Storm Hanna, Ports Reopen and Cleanup Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Ports and waterways along the southwestern stretch of Texas&#039; coastline continue to be affected by the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna, which swept ashore Saturday with drenching rains and moderate 30-knot winds.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi was spared from harm due to a late turn in the storm&#039;s course, and after an inspection it reopened to traffic. The ports of Brownsville and Corpus Christi are both open to navigation as of Monday, according to the Coast Guard&#039;s Homeport operating status system. However,&nbsp;the agency is advising shipping to proceed carefully.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mariners should use extreme caution when transiting through the ports due to aids to navigation outages and floating debris,&quot; said Chief Warrant Officer David Brown, Coast Guard Sector\/Air Station Corpus Christi aids to navigation officer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/article\/Photos\/Wreckage_Salvage\/sunken-sailboat-hurricane-hanna.jpg\" style=\"height:800px;width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy USCG<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sector\/Air Station Corpus Christi and the Texas General Land Office (TGLO) are currently conducting surveys using boats equipped with side-scan sonar and drones to locate submerged vessels. Coast Guard units are also working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review channel surveys and have partnered with pilots&#039; associations and local mariners to conduct assessments. So far, the team has identified 16 sunken vessels and 170 aids to navigation outages across the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ports and waterways along the southwestern stretch of Texas&#039; coastline continue to be affected by the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hanna, which swept ashore Saturday with drenching rains and moderate 30-knot winds. Corpus Christi was spared from harm due to a late turn in the storm&#039;s course, and after an inspection it reopened to traffic. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2416,9471,2769,4542,9473,9419,61,3572,1522,9474,9475,5807,9472],"class_list":["post-14437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aids-to-navigation","tag-aton","tag-begins","tag-cleanup","tag-corps-of-engineers","tag-hanna","tag-ports","tag-reopen","tag-storm","tag-texas-general-land-office","tag-tglo","tag-tropical","tag-usace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/14438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}