{"id":292603,"date":"2025-11-19T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292603\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:50:12","slug":"loaded-freight-barge-taking-on-water-near-bella-bella-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292603\/","title":{"rendered":"Loaded freight barge taking on water near Bella Bella &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A loaded freight barge is taking on water in the Fisher Channel near <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bella-bella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bella Bella<\/a>, B.C.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762614923_240_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Coast Guard says it received a report on Monday afternoon from the tug Malolo that the loaded freight barge they were towing was taking on water.<\/p>\n<p>The tug owner hired divers to determine the cause of the water ingress, the Coast Guard confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently no reports of any pollution leaking from the freight into the water.<\/p>\n<p>The tug and barge were transiting from Alaska to Seattle at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The Heiltsuk Nation\u2019s marine emergency response team is on scene with pollution response equipment on standby and the Coast Guard is collaborating with the Nation, Transport Canada and the tug owner at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-figure__image\" alt=\"The loaded freight barge taking on water near Bella Bella.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Malolo1-courtesy-of-the-Heiltsuk-Nation.png?w=12&amp;h=12&amp;crop=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Malolo1-courtesy-of-the-Heiltsuk-Nation.png\"   data- data- width=\"680\" height=\"531\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe loaded freight barge taking on water near Bella Bella.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tcourtesy of the Heiltsuk Nation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe loaded freight barge taking on water near Bella Bella.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tcourtesy of the Heiltsuk Nation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A loaded freight barge is taking on water in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49620,45,49,48,295,132170],"class_list":{"0":"post-292603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bella-bella","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-sinking-barge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}