JUNEAU, Alaska – The U.S. Coast Guard received approval for removal and destruction of tugboat Challenger under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWCPA). An incident command will be established and operations will begin Monday, Feb. 1, to manage the removal of the tugboat that sank in Juneau’s Gastineau Channel Sept. 12, 2015. The operation […]
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 […]