GETTING FREE — The USCG Healy freed itself from the ice around 1 p.m. Friday afternoon and worked into the darkness to free the Renda that was intentionally frozen into place while a transfer team ran 1.35 million gallons of fuel into storage tanks to top off Bonanza Fuel’s winter supply. The ships headed south Saturday morning around 10 a. m.Photo by Sandra Medearis
HOSE PATROL — On a cold frosty night at the Causeway( left to right) Randall Castel Stotts and Nathan Barron are monitoring pig catcher for 4” foam pig used to clear hose carrying fuel from the Renda to the Bonanza tanks. Photo by Joy BaKER
The USCG Cutter Healy crunched into the mist off Nome Saturday morning tailed by the Russian-flagged fuel tanker Renda following successful delivery of 1.35 million gallons of fuel to top off the community’s retail winter fuel supply.
One shoe has dropped on fuel prices. During the Russian-flagged fuel tanker drama, consumers looking seaward have been entertained, but they have been asking all along —what will Crowley do?
