re: #148 brookly red

damn, if only we had had some of those Dutch skimmers…
or the French ones…
or even just to one Shell has mothballed in Alaska…

damn

Deepwater Horizon Response – June 29, 2010

RESPONSE VESSELS
Vessels of Opportunity: 2,800
Barges: more than 640
Skimmers: more than 510
Other Vessels: more than 2,870
Total active response vessels: more than 6,820

Aircraft: 90

BOOM DATA
Boom deployed: more than 2.75 million feet
Boom available: more than 883,000 feet
Total boom: more than 3.63 million feet

PERSONNEL INVOLVED
Overall personnel responding: more than 38,000 personnel responding

When is the right going to stop peddling the myth that a few more skimmers are going to make a dramatic difference?