{"id":58704,"date":"2020-02-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/impounded-vessel-capsizes-at-statter-harbor\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:30:00","slug":"impounded-vessel-capsizes-at-statter-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/impounded-vessel-capsizes-at-statter-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Impounded vessel capsizes at Statter Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

An impounded vessel capsized from an unknown engineering failure at Don D. Statter Harbor late Monday night.<\/p>\n

“It sank last night,” said City and Borough of Juneau Docks and Harbors deputy harbormaster Matt Creswell in a phone interview. “We hope to have it refloated and out of the harbor by afternoon.”<\/p>\n

The vessel is the Sea Drifter, a 30-foot sport fishing boat manufactured sometime in the ‘80s, Creswell said. It was impounded for the owner’s failure to pay harbor fees.<\/p>\n

“Boats can be impounded for any number of reasons,” Creswell said. “We have a detailed process to give the owner the opportunity to make everything right. Impounding is our last resort.”<\/p>\n

Creswell said that between one to three boats typically capsize a year. The last was at Harris Harbor in late January.<\/p>\n

[Emergency beacon triggers Coast Guard search downtown<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

The vessel was leaking a small amount of oil, Creswell said, leading him to place a barrier around it. However, he said it was not enough oil to cause any environmental damage.<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard had been notified and inspected the vessel, Creswell said.<\/p>\n

“I went down and put the boom around it this morning,” Creswell said. “Better safe than sorry.”<\/p>\n

The vehicle was refloated in the afternoon as divers called by Creswell used inflatable air pockets to float the vessel back to the surface.<\/p>\n

Creswell said the plan was to pull the vessel out of the water and place it on a trailer. He said that the Docks and Harbors department was still deciding on the best long-term storage location for the the Sea Drifter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reason it sank is unknown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":58705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[589,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-58704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-boating","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58704"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}