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Washington ferries are going hybrid-electric, but disposal of old ones poses environmental, legal risks

An abandoned ferry in the Puget Sound represents a shared struggle across the West Coast: to sell an old ship or destroy it

Posted 8/21/25

An abandoned former Washington state ferry, the Olympic, rests slanted on a shoreline off Ketron Island, in southern Puget Sound.

Aboard, flakes of corroded steel and other debris scatter across …

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