Coastt Guard Pollution Response Drill

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HOUSTON - Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Galveston, with the assistance of Coast Guard Buoy Tender Harry Claiborne, conducts a pollution response drill using the Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System (VOSS) in Galveston Bay, Texas.

The VOSS equipment uses a large strip of containment boom to collect oil into an area directly beside the ship, where a skimmer can be lowered to draw the oil into collection tanks on board.

The Coast Guard's VOSS equipment is strategically pre-positioned at several locations across the country and may be transported to a spill site on a single truck or by Coast Guard C-130 aircraft. The mobile equipment is totally self-contained and capable of being used quickly and effectively aboard any available vessel.

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[Shitstirrer2000]

what good is that the oil will simply entrain under the boom ant more than 1 knot