Oil Spill Boom Effectiveness Test - Small waves render Booms useless

The truth about the BP clean up effort - I live in Panama City Beach and I took a jet ski out to where BP is staging booms in order to prepare for the oil slick that may hit our beaches. This video shows how ineffective these booms actually are in stopping oil from reaching the shoreline...

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• oil spill
• gulf of mexico
• booms
• booms not working
• oil spill clean up
• BP oil spill in gulf of mexico

[JustinPierce1226]

I have a condo at the Hidden Dunes there in Panama City Beach. Has any oil been slated to hit Panama City Beach at all? I am done with college until the fall and I want to come down and jetski for a month. I was coming around the 25th, but have you seen any oil or heard it will hit?

[erikgerace]

@JustinPierce1226 - there is no oil in panama city beach as of 6/7/10. i am working as part of the clean up effort and at this time we are just preparing for it the best we can... but its hard to tell you what to do because we only get a 72 hour trajectory each day... we are trying to keep a positive outlook and we hope and pray that it will stay away as long as possible but we just don't know...you can check noaa's website for the latest trajectories...

[dalewinfield61]

Wayneman, look man I an sorry for the rude comment and I do understand your point. I am at a little shop that we set up in Mobile AL. We have been making 12 inch boom for over two weeke and all of it is sitting in our yard right now because BP is taking shipments of boom from China while our boom sits on dry land.right now the boom works quite well as we have good weather and it gives the skimmers a chance to collect more of it.

[erikgerace]

oh my god! it sickens me the more i hear about how bp has responded to the spill THEY caused. unbelievable that they would ship boom from china when you have it available right here where its needed most. sounds eerily familiar to bp's "vessel of opportunities" program...they bring in locals with vessels, promise them $1000+/day if they use their boat in the clean up but yet they don't hire any locals, they bring in their people and pay much less...

[erikgerace]

@dalewinfield61

the public needs to stand up against this injustice...i was in no way attempting to discredit what you are trying to do in helping with the clean up. i was just trying to raise attention that bp needs to be held more accountable.

[Wayneman117]

My question to this guy....."what do you suppose they should do then?"

[erikgerace]

@Wayneman117

please check out cnn website for solutions being offered. there are thousands of solutions that have been submitted to bp but none have been acted on...anything is better than those booms. the booms truly are useless and containing or keeping oil from the beaches...but the costs are much higher than dragging a boom so bp is basically ignoring them.

[dalewinfield61]

Waynman,we are both on the same page I think. I do understand your point and most people probably do know what wind and waves can do to this stuff. I am at our plant right now and I have a lot of pictures. I will try to post some when I get back to pensacola tonight. We still have not shipped any boom

[Wayneman117]

@dalewinfield61 -thats what I'm saying,I agree...Be part of the problem,or part of the solution.

[erikgerace]

@dalewinfield61

you missed my point...its not that we should not do anything, its that we should do something that works. there are tons of ideas out there that are far superior solutions than dragging a boom behind a boat that by BP's own admission will not work if there is more than a .7 knot current....there are so many solutions being offered by some of the greatest minds in the world and they are being ignored because of the expense. Booms this size are not the solution.

[lasanadora2002]

We are starting a grass roots movement on facebook to look for solutions. We have hair booms, we have peat moss booms, we have hay, We are writing letters we are doing energy work and volenteering to help. SOS Save our shores located in Ft. Walton Beach. Spread the word. He is correct, the booms will not hold back this oil and there is so much underwater that if it reaches the booms we are in a whole lot of trouble. Look at Lousiana.