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Barataria Bay [lower right] is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located between Empire and Grand Isle, Louisiana [enlarge].

Barataria Bay, also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States.

Barataria Bay was used as the base of the pirates and privateers led by Jean Lafitte in the early 19th century, and is today a notable resource of shrimp and sulfur, as well as one of muskrat fur, natural gas, and oil.

Two United States Navy ships have been named USS Barataria, and United States Coast Guard cutter USCGC Barataria were named after the bay.^[1]

2010 oil spill

Crews work to control the damaged wellhead spewing oil into the waters of Barataria Bay.

On 27 July 2010, the tugboat Pere Ana C. struck an abandoned wellhead owned by Houston-based Cedyco Corp, while pulling a barge near Bayou St. Denis in Barataria Bay, causing a 20 to 100-foot oil and gas geyser.^[2]^[3]

The geyser was brought under control and the wellhead was repaired and capped on 1 August 2010, five days after the collision.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Naval History & Heritage Command. "Barataria II". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. US Department of the Navy. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b2/barataria-ii.htm. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ The Associated Press (Tuesday, 27 July 2010). "Louisiana Oil Geyser: 20-Foot Oil Leak Shooting Up In Plaquemines Parish After Hit By Tugboat". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/27/louisiana-oil-geyser-20fo_n_660874.html. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
^ Rong-Gong Lin II (Tuesday, 27 July 2010). "Gulf oil spill: New spill in Gulf area after barge crashes into abandoned oil well". The Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/07/gulf-oil-spill-new-spill-in-gulf-after-barge-crashes-into-abandoned-oil-well.html. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ "Crews work to shut-in damaged wellhead". United States Coast Guard. 1 August 2010. http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=957149. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
^ CNN wire staff (2 August 2010). "Leaking Barataria Bay oil well capped". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/02/louisiana.barataria.bay.leak/. Retrieved 2 August 2010.

External links

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Barataria Bay

Coordinates: 29°22′27″N 89°56′17″W / 29.37411°N 89.93813°W / 29.37411; -89.93813

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