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A weary old fishing vessel docked at the Eureka Public Marina went ahead and gave up the ghost this morning, sinking a few feet before its hull settled into the tidal mudflats.

Eureka employees responded to the scene around 11:30 this morning and employed tools from an emergency response trailer that the city acquired through a grant from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, according to reporting from local ABC affiliate KRCR. 

The photos above and below, submitted by LoCO reader Gabriel Douge, show the floating booms that were deployed to contain any oil spillage from spreading.

We’ve reached out to OSPR for more information and will update this post if we learn anything either substantive or interesting about this incident.

In the meantime, pour one out for the Terry S.