US Coast Guard Divers found a large piece of submerged pump casing and an lost anchor in the tanker's path probably causing the spill incident.

The US Coast Guard estimate the spill at approximately 265,000 gallon of heavy Venezuelan crude oil, (see picture bellow)

The spill has so far affected approximately 115 miles of shoreline along the tidal portion of the Delaware River and in response to the initial threat two reactors at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant was shot down along the river at Artificial Island, New Jersey.

FOILEX US Distributor QualiTech Environmental Inc, reports that MPC, (Marine Pollution Control Inc), successfully used a FOILEX TDS 200 Pump to offload the leaking tanks of T/S Athos I.

Further, the well known clean-up company, SWS Environmental First Response, did successfully use a FOILEX TDS 150 Off-loading Pump and divers to recover identified submerge oil at the bottom of Delaware River.