Sheen dissipates but sunken U.S. fish boat still in orca habitat east of Victoria

Sheen dissipates but sunken U.S. fish boat still in orca habitat east of Victoria

Source: PMN Canada

8/17/2022

Sheen dissipates but sunken U.S. fish boat still in orca habitat east of Victoria

Credit: HO /The Canadian Press

The Department of Ecology for the State of Washington says an oil sheen from a sunken fish boat appears to have completely dissipated from an area of U.S. waters just east of Vancouver Island.

The update comes as the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies work to recover the 15-metre Aleutian Isle that went down Saturday with about 10,000 litres of oil and diesel aboard.

Five crew members were saved, but the vessel now lies in roughly 60 metres of water near San Juan Island in Haro Strait, about 25 kilometres east of Victoria.

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