Glenn Murray
Murrenhill CorporationSubject: RE: ROC 9-13-09
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:58:23 -0800Glenn, The ROC was deployed for training only, I don't recall any application in an actual spill on the slope. However, I will recommend that it be used and available for protection against sheens and similar minimal depth plumes. It is useful as a rapid protection boom, but not a sorbent boom.
Do you have a reference number from the Horizon Support submission.Ed Wieliczkiewicz
Alternate - Tony Hout
BPXA NS Crisis Management/Emergency Response Coordinator
OK. So it obvious BP and the Coast Guard are well aware of the product, despite what they told Diel when he visited "incident command."
We had another avenue open to us, and that was to test the boom on some of the crude New Orleans photographer Jerry Moran and I witnessed that was trapping oiled pelicans in Barataria Bay.
So, on Saturday we rented a boat from Captain PJ Blaize in Empire and headed out to the open Gulf in search of our Moby Dick slick.
The first challenge was not puking because of the stench of benzene. At least it was my challenge; the guys seemed to have stronger stomachs.
Dispersant plume and what you can't see is the stench of
benzene
I told Moran I was ready to throw him overboard if he stopped to photograph one more oiled pelican, and there were many. Where were the tri-state bird people?
It seemed like forever before we encountered oil on the surface, even though we could smell it. Why?
This is the BIG LIE of COREXIT. It hides the oil in an undersea column. You can smell it, but you have to be on top of it to see it. The fish and dolphins swim through it.
Dolphin feeding in COREXIT and oil mix
The sharks are gone. We speculated that with their superior sense of smell, they left long ago. The unfortunate dolphins feed in the lines of COREXIT, mistaking it for a tide line. When we placed some of the ROC Boom in the water, crabs immediately latched onto it, trying desperately to get out of the COREXIT/oil soup. It was, quite, frankly, disgusting, disheartening, and maddening to see this.
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