The tugboat that sank at the Bremerton Marina nearly two months ago will be deconstructed right where it rest under water, starting around Nov. 15, and a similar incident at the Kingston waterfront was averted and a listing tug was saved.

Agencies responding to the incident now plan to deconstruct the Dominion at its current location, where it sank Sept. 17, after a determination that the Dominion can't be raised to the surface and moved intact. Contractors will remove the debris by crane, load it on a barge, and transport it to a salvage yard in Seattle, according to the Department of Ecology.

The department said the deconstruction of the Dominion will take about six days.

"Additional oil may be released during this work, but we’ll have responders on standby to contain and recover any

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