T/V Oriental Crane; Nikiski, Cook Inlet, Alaska

Nikiski, Cook Inlet, Alaska | 1988-Dec-12

Initial Notification: 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.