09-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org

Homer port employees help save sinking vessel

Homer Port and Harbor officials say employees helped saved a vessel from sinking on Tuesday.
Early that morning, a harbor officer found the vessel Klahowya sinking and semi-submerged at its moorings and called for help, Deputy Harbormaster Matt Clarke said.
“He was able to install and implement emergency de-watering pumps before my arrival and was unsuccessful in saving the vessel,” Clarke said. “In further correspondence with him we realized that it was actually sunk and
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