re: #334 albusteve

I don’t believe anything Gates says, or whatever Fox news says…my cynicism is off the scale…I want to see a swarm of activity with my own eyes, and I don’t because it’s not there…the gulf is dying while people twitter about with their heads up their ass

If this isn’t a “swarm” of activity, I don’t know what is. More than 6500 vessels actively responding. There so many boats out there, I don’t know if they could get another one in. The following info. is as of Friday:

RESPONSE VESSELS
Vessels of Opportunity: 2,750
Barges: more than 620
Skimmers: more than 430
Other Vessels: more than 2,780
Total active response vessels: more than 6,580

Aircraft: 98

BOOM DATA
Boom deployed: more than 2.6 million feet
Boom available: more than 936,000 feet
Total boom: more than 3.5 million feet

OIL RECOVERED
Oily water recovered: over 26 million gallons
Amount estimated burned: nearly 10 million gallons

Oil captured (CAP) over last 24hrs: more than 1,070,000 gallons

DISPERSANTS
Surface dispersant used: more than 1.003,000 gallons
Subsea dispersant used: more than 527,000 gallons
Total dispersant used: more than 1,530,000 gallons

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