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Assessment of WWII shipwreck off Long Island again postponed

July 11, 2018 12:00 am • Last Updated: July 11, 2018 6:51 pm

The Coast Guard has again postponed an underwater assessment of a World War II shipwreck site off the coast of Long Island. The assessment now will take place in the spring of 2019.

The early start of the 2018 hurricane season and activity of Hurricane Chris impacted logistics and raised safety concerns for the operation, the Coast Guard said Wednesday in a news release.

The Coast Guard has contracted with the Florida-based salvage company Resolve Marine to assess whether the British tanker Coimbra, sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Long Island during World War II, is leaking oil.

The underwater assessment originally was scheduled to take place June 19-27. It was first postponed to July 15-23 due to logistical concerns.

The 423-foot-long Coimbra is broken into three parts, and is resting on its starboard side about 170 feet below the water roughly 30 miles southeast of Shinnecock, N.Y., off Long Island's south shore.

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