GROUNDED SHIP RUSTS IN PEACE.(Disasters)(Five years after the wreck, the environmental and legal legacy is still being tallied)

From: The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) | Date: February 4, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

COOS BAY - Like some ugly rock permanently squatting in the scenery, it remains: an empty, rotting shell stuck in the sand not far from where it ran aground five years ago today.

Waves pound mercilessly at the 1,500-ton ghost of the New Carissa with such force that saltwater leaps stories above the ship's rusted stern before returning to the receding tide.

Each year, bits and pieces of the stern break off and get carried toward the beach or out to sea. Barnacles, starfish and sea anemones have taken up residence inside. Seabirds ...

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