Coast Guard Sector Juneau responders went to the scene of a sunken tug boat in Gastineau Channel on Sunday and deployed oil containment boom around the vessel that had sunk the day before, the Coast Guard reports. On Saturday, the 96-foot tug Challenger sunk in the channel while at anchor there according to reports. The […]
The Alaska Department of Conservation reported on Wednesday night that a tug, the Devon, operating on the Nushagak River in Western Alaska had struck an underwater obstacle, possibly a rock and had leaked some 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the river there. Although the ruptured tank carried 7,400 gallons of fuel, the crew was […]