Tuesday , the Port Valdez crew finished pumping the remaining crude oil out of the tanker and will attempt to pump air into the hold and refloat the tanker at high tide Wednesday afternoon . The tanker will be moved to a remote cove for temporary repairs . Exxon is looking for a dry dock for the final repairs . Thick fog now covers more than 1,640 square miles of water and several miles of beach . If freed, the still-leaking ship, which has eight holes some 20 feet long in its hull, will be towed to a remote and already fouled cove for repairs. The annual herring season has been cancelled and the sablefish and shrimp fisheries closed . Efforts are underway to protect the salmon fisheries . The captain , Joseph Hazelwood , is in New York and reportedly ready to sail .
Tuesday , the Port Valdez crew finished pumping the remaining crude oil out of the tanker and will attempt to pump air into the hold and refloat the tanker at high tide Wednesday afternoon . The tanker will be moved to a remote cove for temporary repairs . Exxon is looking for a dry dock for the final repairs . Thick fog now covers more than 1,640 square miles of water and several miles of beach . The annual herring season has been cancelled and the sablefish and shrimp fisheries closed . Efforts are underway to protect the salmon fisheries . The captain , Joseph Hazelwood , is in New York and reportedly ready to sail .