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Alaskan ice floe crashes into oil-laden tanker
A tanker carrying almost five million gallons of oil and petrol broke free of its moorings while loading at an Alaskan refinery yesterday and began leaking into the Cook Inlet approach to Anchorage.
The double-hulled tanker, the Seabulk Pride, was hit by a fast-moving ice floe which untethered the mooring line and caused the vessel to drift about half a mile into the Inlet, where it came to rest on a silty bank.
Initial reports suggested the spillage was minimal - no more than five barrels, of which only two escaped the vessel into the waters of the inlet.
The accident nevertheless caused jitters for Alaskan shipping authorities and for the company chartering the tanker, Texas-based Tesoro Inc. Memories are still strong of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1988, when 11 million gallons of raw crude spilled into Prince William Sound, about 100 miles to the southeast of Cook Inlet.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article342943.ece
Initial reports suggested the spillage was minimal - no more than five barrels, of which only two escaped the vessel into the waters of the inlet.
The accident nevertheless caused jitters for Alaskan shipping authorities and for the company chartering the tanker, Texas-based Tesoro Inc. Memories are still strong of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1988, when 11 million gallons of raw crude spilled into Prince William Sound, about 100 miles to the southeast of Cook Inlet.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article342943.ece
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