Estimate of Oil Spill in Alaska Downsized ; Breached Tank Held 41,000 Gallons of Fuel
The Columbian › December 14, 2004
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Coast Guard officials Monday said an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska's coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
The federal government's incident commander, Capt. Ron Morris, said only 41,138 gallons of bunker fuel were inside the tank directly breached when the Malaysian soybean freighter Selendang Ayu split in two on an Unalaska Island shoal.See the full content of this document
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Estimate of Oil Spill in Alaska Downsized ; Breached Tank Held 41,000 Gallons of Fuel
Coast Guard officials last week said they thought the 140,000- gallon tank had been full.
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