Motor Vessel Selendang Ayu Unified Command
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Feb. 2, 2005
Contact: Joint Information Center
(907) 581-7158 Coast Guard information officer: (907) 581-7158
State of Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation information officer:
(907) 321-5491
Responsible party's information officer: (845) 629-0359
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Unified Command Press Release |
| Juneau, Alaska - Today's operations will include shoreline assessment and cleanup in Portage Bay, lightering, over flights and wildlife recovery.
Crews from four response boats converged on Portage Bay Tuesday, determined as the heaviest oiled from assessments by over flight crews and shoreline cleanup assessment team surveys. Cleanup crews collected 1,607 bags of oily waste. To date the total amount of oily waste recovered from the bays is 35,598 bags. Crews lightered 11,248 gallons of intermediate fuel oil (IFO) from the wreck Tuesday. To date, crews lightered 139,307 gallons of fuel from the wreck, 127,784 of IFO and 11,523 of diesel. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USF&WS) crews recovered 14 oiled and/or scavenged birds Tuesday from Makushin Bay (9), Humpback Bay (four) and Cannery Bay (one). To date a total of 1,503 birds have been recovered. Officials from the USFWS also report two red foxes and three bald eagles were found dead in oiled areas, however the animals were not oiled. Officials sent these animals to a forensics lab in Oregon to determine if their cause of death is connected to the oil spill. Today's weather in Dutch Harbor consists of northeast winds at 15-knots, seas of two feet or less, and an air temperature of 37 degrees. |
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