Mystery spill, strait of juan de fuca; entrance to strait of juan de fuca, buoy j, puget sound, wa

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Mystery Spill, Strait of Juan de Fuca; Entrance to Strait of Juan de Fuca, Buoy J, Puget Sound, WA.
Entrance to Strait of Juan de Fuca, Buoy J, Puget Sound, WA.
1. Group Port Angeles passed a sport fisherman's report of a slick in the vicinity of Buoy J at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the MSO Puget Sound at 1515 on September 23, 1994. A USCG boat out of Station Neah Bay confirmed the sighting before dark, describing it as a silver sheen containing intermittent brown patches, 1.5 feet wide by 6 feet long, made up of small tarballs described as brown, gooey clumps. They estimated the slick covered a two- by six-mile area. On September 24, response equipment was pre-staged at Port Angeles and pre-planned protection booming as specified in the Geographical Response Plan was deployed at the Waatch and Sooes rivers to protect local salmon runs. Searches for the oil at first light by Canadian and USCG vessels, spill response contractor vessels, and helicopters were significantly hampered by heavy fog that continued throughout the day. [...]
2. COMMODITY: BLACK OIL.
3. POSITION 48.482N 124.733W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 7047: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/7047