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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (134998)	6/15/2010 12:22:50 PM
From: upanddown	Respond to of 206209

Anyone know if we're going to get the skimmer/vacumn boats from the Dutch? CC, they are not even vessels, but skimmer arms that could be airlifted here. The question is whether we have vessels to which the arms can be attached which could then process and separate the oil and water, store the oil and discharge the water. The water is not completely free of oil and EPA regulations forbid this type of discharge(groan). That is why we have these barges that take the oil and mostly water to shore. Today's bulletin deepwaterhorizonresponse.com says Oily water recovered: nearly 20.7 million gallons. If you look at the vessels involved in the report... RESPONSE VESSELS Vessels of Opportunity: more than 2,080 Barges: more than 560 Skimmers: more than 420 Other Vessels: more than 4,990 Total active response vessels: more than 8,050 it looks impressive, but the results are miserably inadequate because the methods being used are simply so stupid. I think with a substantial fleet of modern high-capacity skimmers sweeping the sea above Macondo 24/7, we could have kept this blowout at bay and kept oil from reaching shorelines.