In Alaska and many other coastal states, the aging of the fleet presents a costly environmental hazard.
Recovery efforts for the sunken boat Tagish began in early February. It was a multi-agency effort led by the Coast Guard, with help from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and a private salvage company, Melino’s Marine Service.
“The vessel was really contaminated,” said Chief Mike Ryan with the Coast Guard’s Incident Management Division. “It was a very old vessel with a lot of different fuel tanks.” It’s hard to restore old vessels to their former glory, as Etheridge attempted. At the time of the sinking, he had replaced the interior and half the deck, which cost thousands of dollars.But in some cases it’s even harder, and more expensive, to get rid of them.
Old tug boats, specifically, have caused multiple headaches in Juneau in the last decade. First, there was The Challenger, a 71-year-old wooden tug that sank near the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game RefugeExcavators demolish the tug Challenger on March 7, 2016 in 2021, after it was abandoned in city and state-owned tidelands for years. Its disposal cost Juneau Docks and Harbors $160,000, with an additional $70,000 from the federal government.
“Mr. Etheridge bought that boat and he had great plans for it,” Creswell said. “He was a very responsible owner, he made daily checks of the boat, by all accounts he did everything right.” In this case, it’s still Etheridge. But a bill of more than half a million dollars is a significant burden for many private boat owners. The federal“Theoretically owners are kept accountable,” Lord said. “But also, that is not an unending pool of money that the Coast Guard is just going to be authorized to continue using ad nauseam to deal with all of our vessels.”
In lieu of insurance, Juneau Docks and Harbors charges a “Vessel Disposal Surcharge” of $0.25 cents per foot, which Etheridge was paying. In spite of its name, that money does not go directly to vessel disposal. Rather, it goes into the general Docks and Harbors operating budget.
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