Fuel hold breached on broken freighter off Alaska coast
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast - a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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Six people were missing after a U.S.  Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the stormy Bering Sea after  plucking the last remaining crew members from a disabled  Malaysian cargo vessel, officials said on Thursday.  Those missing after the helicopter crash late on Wednesday  included crew members plucked from the stricken Seledang Ayu, a  738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter that later split in two.  The ship was carrying soybeans, according to one news report.
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A large earthquake rattled Alaska's seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries
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Officials shifted their focus from rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship split apart two
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Coast Guard officials Monday said an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska's coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The search for six crew  members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island  has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup  of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on  Saturday.
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A tanker truck carrying 7,100 gallons of diesel fuel was taken at gunpoint from a city fuel depot early Friday, authorities said.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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Stormy seas pushed a coal freighter carrying at least 21 Filipino crew members onto a sand bank off Australia's east coast Friday, prompting a major rescue operation and fears of an oil leak.
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Shipwreck being broken up after efforts to refloat it failed.
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people were ready  to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered  animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six  people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
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Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.