The Observer, July 2006
Spring brings fishing vessel training for Kodiak crews
This year’s Kodiak fishing vessel training exercises took place May 8-10, involving 41 boats and 152 fishermen. In the event of a major oil spill, fishing vessels will be a key part of the response, as they were in 1989 after the Exxon Valdez spill. That’s why Alyeska Pipeline, which operates the program, conducts regular training exercises.
Aboard Alyeska’s Endurance tug, fishermen get training in the use of various types of boom.
A CurrentBuster skimming system aboard the Endurance is inflated for deployment.
The fishing vessel Dolphin pulls the CurrentBuster off the Endurance and into the waters of Womens Bay on Kodiak Island.
Photos by Matt Pauli, Occupational Safety and Health Administration.