An unmanned barge carrying 950 gallons of fuel has drifted farther from the Alaskan coast, said the Alaska Coast Guard. The barge detached from a Canadian towboat during an Oct. 21 storm on the Beaufort Sea. The barge was about 110 miles southeast of Point Barrow on Monday and was traveling between 1 and 2 mph, said Shawn Decker, chief of response for the Coast Guard's Anchorage sector. The U.S. and Canadian coast guards have been monitoring the barge closely from the air. They hope to drop a GPS device onto it sometime this week, according to Decker.
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