MULTIMEDIA RELEASE: Coast Guard monitors the cleanup of ruptured fuel pipe near Mango

MANGO, Fla. -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Donald Vaughn, left, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam Mcinnish, both marine science technicians from the Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg Response Division, inspect a broken pipeline that carries jet fuel between Tampa and Orlando that ruptured into Mango Creek July 22, 2011. MSTs are the Coast Guard’s safety and environmental health experts ashore and they may be assigned to the National Strike Force for oil and hazardous-material response. They conduct marine-safety activities such as investigating pollution incidents, monitoring pollution cleanups, and conducting foreign-vessel boardings to enforce pollution and navigation safety laws. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.

MANGO, Fla. -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Donald Vaughn, left, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam Mcinnish, both marine science technicians (MST) from the Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg Response Division, inspect a broken pipeline that carries jet fuel between Tampa and Orlando that ruptured into Mango Creek July 22, 2011.

MSTs are the Coast Guard’s safety and environmental health experts ashore and they may be assigned to the National Strike Force for oil and hazardous-material response. They conduct marine-safety activities such as investigating pollution incidents, monitoring pollution cleanups, and conducting foreign-vessel boardings to enforce pollution and navigation safety laws.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.

MANGO, Fla. -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Donald Vaughn, a Coast Guard Reservist and marine science technician (MST) from the Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg Response Division, inspects a broken pipeline that carries jet fuel between Tampa and Orlando that ruptured into Mango Creek July 22, 2011.

MSTs are the Coast Guard’s safety and environmental health experts ashore and they may be assigned to the National Strike Force for oil and hazardous-material response. They conduct marine-safety activities such as investigating pollution incidents, monitoring pollution cleanups, conducting foreign-vessel boardings to enforce pollution and navigation safety laws.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.

MANGO, Fla. - Members of Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg response division discuss and evaluate the unified commands response as a result to the Central Florida Pipeline leak July 25, 2010.

The unified command has secured the source of the fuel leak which spans from Tampa to Orlando, Fla.

U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios.

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