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Nikiski, cook inlet, alaska

T/v Oriental Crane; Nikiski, Cook Inlet, Alaska · NOAAORR-6639

issued
1988-12-12 00:00Z
status
cancelled 1988-12-26 00:00Z
self-cancels
1988-12-26 00:00Z
authority
NOAA OR&R
sea
Gulf of Alaska
position
60.669, -151.496
source
incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z

Original warning text

T/V Oriental Crane; Nikiski, Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Nikiski, Cook Inlet, Alaska.
1. Late in the morning on December 12, 1988, 25-knot winds knocked the Oriental Crane, a 300-foot Japanese fuel tanker, into the Kenai Pipeline dock, where the tanker was loading diesel fuel. The force of the collision punched an approximately eight inch-wide hole into a fuel tank of bunker C above the water line. Fuel leaked into the water for approximately 40 minutes before dropping below the level of the hole when the bunker C was pumped into another undamaged tank. An estimated 182 barrels of fuel oil were lost into Cook Inlet. USCG district 17.
2. COMMODITY: DIESEL FUEL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 7640 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 60.669N 151.496W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6639: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6639

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Timeline · 3 messages since 1988-11-02 · closed 1988-12-26

  1. Trading bay, upper cook inlet, alaska1988-11-02 → 1988-11-16
  2. Upper cook inlet, alaska1988-11-14 → 1988-11-28
  3. Nikiski, cook inlet, alaska this message1988-12-12 → 1988-12-26

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