LOCAL : 7 Hurt as Ships Collide Off L.A.
A sportfishing boat and a supertanker hauling jet fuel collided in the darkness just outside Los Angeles Harbor shortly before midnight, tossing the small boat like a toy and injuring seven people, none seriously. One passenger jumped overboard in fright.
The 35 passengers and 7 crew members of the 90-foot fishing boat Shogun were hurled to the floor when the bow smashed into the Sealift Antarctic, a 564-foot tanker on its way to San Francisco, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Forty barrels of light jet fuel spilled into the sea, but officials said it evaporated rapidly and posed little threat to the environment.
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