Cargo container lost off North Carolina coast had 5,900 pounds of sulfuric acid in it

One of the 76 cargo containers that fell into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Oregon Inlet, North Carolina, on March 3, had almost 6,000 pounds of sulfuric acid in it. The Coast Guard confirmed in a press release that A. P. Moller-Maersk reported that one of the containers missing from the cargo ship Maersk Shanghai held 5,900 pounds of sulfuric acid, and that there are no indications that this container has washed up on shore yet.

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