PORT LUDLOW — A slow stream of diesel fuel leaking from a sunken fishing vessel at the entrance to Hood Canal isn’t worrying environmental officials.
“It’s a slow enough rate that when it reaches the surface it spreads, then evaporates and dissipates naturally and does it quick enough so it won’t reach the shore,” Coast Guard Lt. Tedd Hutley said Friday from Seattle.
Hutley is the chief of marine environmental protection for the Coast Guard’s Puget Sound Marine Safety Office.
The 55-foot vessel Martle capsized and sank with 700 gallons of diesel fuel aboard during a wind storm around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Coast Guard officials say it came to rest about 200 feet below the surface nearly a mile off Foulweather Bluff northeast of Port Ludlow.
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The rest of the story appears in the Sunday Peninsula Daily News.