Coast Guard thinks all the fuel has dissipated, but environmental groups are paying to check underwater wreckage.
On Aug. 20, a barge listed and accidentally dumped several pieces of logging equipment and a tanker truck carrying 10,000 litres of diesel fuel into Robson Bight, a protected killer whale habitat famed for its whale-rubbing beaches.
Several environmental groups will pay for an underwater look at sunken logging equipment in the Robson Bight Ecological Reserve off northeastern Vancouver Island.
Greenpeace, the Living Oceans Society, Orca Lab and two whale watching companies said Friday that $40,000 had been raised to fund the investigation, which is due to begin Oct. 30.
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