Coast Guard and Washington State Department of Ecology crews responded to a 41-foot vessel that sank at the Westport Marina early Friday morning. The Charlotte’s emergency beacon alerted Coast Guard Incident Management Division personnel to the location. The owners were contacted and found to be safe at a different location.

Ecology personnel deployed a boom around the vessel to contain and minimize the impact of possible pollutants emanating from the Charlotte while a contractor was located to remove the fuel from the vessel, which was to take place Saturday. The vessel has a maximum capacity of 300 gallons of diesel, but the owner said only about 75 gallons were on board when she sank. Crews could see a light sheen around the vessel’s location.