North Star Terminal and Stevedore Company personnel offload leaking containers from the BBC Arizona into a decontamination area in Valdez, Alaska, June 10, 2013. Once offloaded, containers will be opened, inspected and cleaned by Emerald Alaska Inc. Response personnel remain on scene with a vacuum truck and waterside response boats during offloading as a precautionary measure. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert.
North Star Terminal and Stevedore Company personnel place a container from the BBC Arizona into a decontamination area in Valdez, Alaska, June 10, 2013. Once offloaded, containers will be opened, inspected, and cleaned by Emerald Alaska Inc. Response personnel remain on scene with a vacuum truck and waterside response boats during offloading as a precautionary measure. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Gary Barnum takes an oil sample from a container offloaded from the BBC Arizona in Valdez, Alaska, June 11, 2013. After transferring containers to shoreside decontamination, samples of oil will continue to be field tested to positively rule out presence of PCBs. Vacuum trucks will then transfer oil cargo into temporary storage tanks or "frac tanks." Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert.
Emerald Alaska Inc. personnel empty the contents from an oil bladder offloaded from the BBC Arizona in Valdez, Alaska, June 11, 2013. After transferring containers to shoreside decontamination, containers are opened, inspected and cleaned by Emerald Alaska, Inc. Vacuum trucks then transfer oil cargo into temporary storage tanks or "frac tanks." Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert.