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  • John Astad · 1 year ago
    Looks like after the rash of oil spills recently the shipping industry needs to institute a proactive stance in mitigating spills.

    For example carrying oil booms on the vessel in a spill response locker on a reel. A boom the length of the vessel would be an added expense but would assist in rapidly containing the spill until the skimmer clean-up vessels arrive.

    Such a spill response system under ideal weather conditions like the Cosco Busan incident would of been ideal.
  • BB · 1 year ago
    Good point John, you could just launch the FRB and drive it around the ship but would take a huge locker for the boom.
  • John Astad · 1 year ago
    I just talked with Wiley at CRUCIAL, Inc http://www.crucialinc.com/ and for about $100,000 it would be possible.

    A drop in the bucket in comparison to the millions $$$ for an environmental clean-up. The ship owners need to figure this in the cost with the million it cost to build a vessel at the shipyard

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