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 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Three tug boats helped pull a grounded fuel tanker off a beach on the Kenai Peninsula on Friday, one day after an ice floe pulled the tanker from its mooring and sent it adrift.
The tanker was being filled when it broke lose at the port of Nikiski, 80 miles southwest of Anchorage. Eighty-four gallons of fuel spilled into Cook Inlet, but the tanker's hull didn't appear to have cracked, the Coast Guard said.
It took about 40 minutes to refloat the 575-foot Seabulk Pride, said Kip Knudson, a spokesman for Tesoro Alaska, which leases the ship. He said the tanker was pulled into deeper water where it was being inspected.
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