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A Unified Command continues to respond to a sunken commercial fishing vessel that has spilled diesel fuel west of San Juan Island in Washington. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget.
Already six days into an oil spill clean-up, difficult conditions are slowing attempts to plug a leaking fishing vessel off the coast of San Juan Island.
An oil spill that began on Saturday reached a new phase on Monday, and divers were able to begin a plan to plug and recover any remaining oil that went down with the Aleutian Isle, a 49-foot vessel that sank off the west side of San Juan Island.