RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           Ranger Activities Division Information Network

Day/Date:  Monday, August 23, 1993

Broadcast: By 0900 EDT

INCIDENTS

93-625 - Glacier Bay (Alaska) - Ship Grounding; Rescue

On the afternoon of August 18th, the Yorktown Clipper, a 257-foot tour boat,
ran aground on Geikie Rock about half way up Glacier Bay.  The ship
sustained damage to its forward hull and immediately began to take on water. 
There were 134 passengers and 42 crew members on board at the time.  The
captain requested immediate assistance, and vessels throughout the area -
including four NPS boats - responded to the mayday call.  Park boats
transferred all 134 passengers and four of the crew members from the Clipper
to the Westerdam, another cruise ship then in the bay.  The Westerdam then
proceeded on to Sitka with the Clipper's passengers.  Another 22 crew
members were taken to Bartlett Cove.  The remaining 16, including the
captain, remained on board to stabilize the vessel and move it to shallow
waters in case there was a need to beach it.  The Coast Guard responded to
the mayday with two helicopters from Sitka and the cutter Woodrush.  The
helicopters transported dewatering pumps, environmental assessment teams,
damage control teams, an oil spill boom and absorbent pads to the Clipper. 
Crew members, assisted by rangers and Coast Guard personnel, utilized the
pumps to minimize flooding.  The Clipper was moved into Shag Cove off Geikie
Inlet so that any fuel or oil spills could be better contained, but only a
small amount of fuel - no more than 100 gallons - appears to have leaked
from the ship.  About 1500 feet of boom was deployed, and the landing craft
Gumption was dispatched from June with an additional 1.5 miles of
containment boom in case it was needed.  The tugboats Chevelle Rouge and
Tagish were dispatched late in the day in order to help pump out the
Clipper's fuel tanks (it was carrying 23,000 gallons of fuel at the time of
the accident) and tow the ship to port for temporary repairs.  Salvage
divers from Ketchikan were flown into Gustavus that night and transported by
rangers to the Clipper.  They began an assessment of the damage to the hull
and assisted with temporary repairs.  Many of the ruptures were plugged, and
temporary repairs were begun which would enable the ship to make it to port. 
At last report, repair efforts were still underway.  No obvious resource
damage has occurred, but assessments were continuing.  [John Quinley, PAO,
ARO, 8/20; Bill Gabbert, GLBA, 8/20]

93-626 - Mammoth Cave (Kentucky) - Rescue

At about 4 p.m. on August 19th, J.M., a member of a National
Speleological Society (NSS) group on an expedition in Crystal Cave,
dislocated his shoulder when he lost his footing while chimneying through a
canyon passageway.  He was stabilized by members of the expedition, while
others left the cave and notified the park.  ICS was implemented and rescue
operations were begun at 6 p.m.  Resources from the region were mobilized
and rescue teams formed to extricate J.M., who was about two miles from
the cave entrance.  The area of the cave in which he was located has a
2,000-foot belly crawl which requires advanced technical extrication
methods.  Due to these complexities, a medical doctor was brought to the
scene to stabilize J.M.'s injury so that rescue teams could begin to
remove him.  At the time of the report (6 a.m. last Friday), the rescue was
continuing.  More than 70 persons were involved, including rescue crews made
up of park staff, NSS expedition members and area cave rescue team members. 
[MACA, 8/20]

            [More pending incident reports tomorrow...]

FIRE ACTIVITY

Preparedness Level I.  Initial attack activity continued in most areas over
the weekend, but the only large fire activity reported was in Florida. 
Those fires have been or will soon be contained.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady on travel (8/23-8/27).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Berkowitz conducting weapons
tests at FLETC (8/25-9/5); Marriott (8/25-9/5) and Halainen (8/23-8/27) on
AL.

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Hurd on hazard fuel project site review (8/23-
8/27); Erskine and Farrel at structural fire review (8/23-8/27); Gale at
Guadalupe Mountains fire review (8/23-8/25); Botti on AL (8/23-6/27).

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