Page 12 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch July 19, 2013 SHAAnnounces Road Project By SHAWN J. SOPER NEWS EDITOR Family-Friendly Authentic Italian Cuisine For Over 25 Years! BERLIN – State Highway Administration (SHA) officials on Sunday night will begin a project to replace failing metal pipes with reinforced concrete pipes under Route 575, or Worcester Highway, which will likely create detours and alter traffic patterns throughout the north end of the county for nearly a week. 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Throughout the project, SHA crews will be redirecting traffic with two separate detours that will affect large areas in the north end of Worcester. . . Emergency Crews Review Crash FROM PAGE 9 vate boat to assist in the rescue operation of the boater. “I don’t know,” Theobald replied. “I cannot answer that.” OCBP Captain Butch Arbin explained that once OCBP had received information from reliable sources on the beach of the general vicinity the crash took place, guards paddled out to a crossing point where they discovered a fuel-oil slick and bubbling. The guards did not attempt a free dive due to the amount of fuel and oil in the water. At that point, Bayles then asked, if OCBP had pinpointed the location, why the Ocean City Dive Team was told to stand down. Plunkert responded a fuel-oil slick only tells the general area of the crash site due to its tidal movement, not the exact location. “You are not positive it’s there. It could be several hundred yards down,” he said. “I know when we got there we did not have an exact pinpoint on where that plane was … as a dive commander, I am not going to put a diver in the water unless I have a specific location, not one that is random of several hundred feet. From the information I still have today, I don’t believe that even if we sent their dive team out, if they had a specific location … I don’t think there was an exact location.” USCG Officer in Charge at the Ocean City Station, Master Chief Ross Fowle, pointed out the OCBP did not discover the fuel-oil slick until 40 minutes after the time of the crash. “That is a risk assessment because in all honesty if you’re under water for 40 minutes … you have to focus on one spot for someone who is potentially underwater and could miss them on the surface trying to get themselves to the beach … putting divers in the water 40 minutes after the incident is not really that accurate. 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