T/v arco anchorage; port angeles harbor, port angeles, washington

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T/V Arco Anchorage; Port Angeles Harbor, Port Angeles, Washington.
Port Angeles Harbor, Port Angeles, Washington.
1. At 1626 on December 21, 1985 the Tank Vessel ARCO Anchorage ran aground while anchoring in Port Angeles Harbor, Washington. The vessel was carrying 814,000 barrels of Alaska North Slope Crude Oil en route from Valdez, Alaska to the Cherry Point Refinery in Bellingham, Washington. Weather conditions at the time of the incident were calm with a visibility of 3 miles. The vessel was holed in two cargo tanks resulting in the loss of 5690 barrels of oil into Port Angeles Harbor. Internal transfer of cargo from the holed tanks stopped the discharge of oil into the water by 2052, December 21. The ARCO Anchorage remained aground until 0244, December 22 when it was refloated and moved to deeper anchorage within Port Angeles Harbor. Through discussions with the Canadian Coast Guard it was decided that invocation of the joint U.S. Canadian response plan (CANUSPAC) was not necessary, but that close [...]
2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: ALASKA NORTH SLOPE CRUDE OIL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 239000 GALLONS. TAGS: COLLISION.
3. POSITION 48.117N 123.450W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6319: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6319