Samaritans hurry to tie up the runaway barge seconds after it collides with the Silver Bay Seafoods-owned dock.
As wind gusts exceeded 30 knots on Wednesday morning a roughly 180-foot barge broke loose from its moorage around a mile south of Scow Bay in the Wrangell Narrows.
The Coast Guard issued a maritime security alert warning vessels in the area, while the harbormasters office contacted residents along the shore of Kupreanof Island, "just to let them know that if it does end up ricocheting down that Narrows, to be aware of it," Harbormaster Glorianne Wollen said, "to potentially pull your outhaul in or pull your skiff off."
Jordan Reid was in the harbormaster office when he heard about the barge. H...
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