Spills · grounding
George island, alaska
F/V Arctic Sea Grounding; St · NOAAORR-11097
- issued
- 2026-01-05 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2026-01-19 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2026-01-19 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 56.606, -169.675
- vessels
- FISHING VESSEL ARCTIC SEAF/V ARCTIC SEA GROUNDING
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
F/V ARCTIC SEA Grounding; St. George Island, Alaska. Saint George Island, AK, USA. 1. At approximately 4am on January 5, 2026, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Arctic District Command Center in Juneau received a report that the fishing vessel Arctic Sea was taking on water and aground along the northern shoreline of St. George Island (Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea) with nine people aboard. The Coast Guard launched a helicopter, aircraft, and USCG Cutter Alex Haley and were able to rescue all nine without incident. At the time of the rescue, the vessel had nine inches of water in the galley from an unknown ingress. An oil spill response organization has been contracted to oversee salvage operations of the grounded vessel, which had 50K gallons of diesel on board. Due to severe weather conditions, typical of the Bering Sea and Pribilof Islands, the fuel could not be removed from the vessel in January. By the time weather conditions improved in June, the vessel had sustained [...] 2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: DIESEL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 50000 GALLONS. TAGS: GROUNDING. 3. POSITION 56.606N 169.675W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 11097: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/11097
This area · spills & pollution incidents
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