After additional weather-related delays, on 26 February salvors managed to float the bow section and began the process of towing it out to sea for disposal. By 1 March, the tugboat "Sea Victory" had towed the bow from the beach and out to sea, initially followed by an oil skimmer vessel, OSRV "Oregon Responder". However, another severe storm forced the skimmer back to port, and when the tug was off the coast, the tow line broke. The bow section floated for fourteen hours until it ran aground near Waldport, Oregon on 3 March, approximately to the north of the original grounding site. On 8 March, the bow was again refloated, and by 11 March it was successfully towed off the coast by "Sea Victory" and a second tug, "Natoma". At this location, the Pacific Ocean is approximately deep. The bow was sunk by two US Navy ships, the destroyer and the submarine . Four hundred pounds (180 kg) of high explosives were attached to the bow and detonated. Sixty-nine rounds of gunfire from "David R. Ray"s deck guns then punctured the hull. After 40 minutes, the ship was still afloat with darkness and a storm approaching. To expedite the sinking, "Bremerton" fired a Mark 48 torpedo at the underside of the ship. Within ten minutes, the bow section flooded and sank stern-first, trapping the remaining oil within.