FIGURE 21. The 18,000-ton tanker R. C. STONER lies ot the mercy 

 of the seo on the reef off the entronce to the smoll-boat horbor at 

 Woke Islond (upper left). Fuel leoked from the domoged tanker 

 ond woshed oshore (upper right). Oil in the adjacent small-boat 

 harbor reached a depth of obout 3 to 4 inches. This wos pumped off 



to a nearby pit and burned (lower left). Some fishes of the reef were 

 killed (lower right); however, o fishery biologist from the Loboratory 

 in Honolulu found a plentiful ond apparently unaffected fish popula- 

 tion when he made dives not for from the polluted beaches. 



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