Shipwreck Response Kit, Steve Ebbert, Biologist Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge

December 1997 "Shipwreck Response Kits like this are stored in strategic locations along Alaska’s coast so that the refuge and cooperators can quickly deploy traps and poison to prevent rats from coming ashore from sinking or grounded ships. Over 3,000 ships from throughout the world pass through the refuge islands every year with an average of two shipping mishaps per year near refuge islands. The first shipwreck to loose rats on a refuge island was in 1780