A Whale Of A Plan!
Jul-5-2010 By Barbara Zak
There may be a glimmer of new hope, for cleaning up the Gulf Coast spill.
A ship, billed as the world’s largest skimming vessel, form Taiwan, continued testing its abilities in the Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.
It is called, A Whale, and if tests in a 5-by-5-mile area, north of the underwater gusher are successful, the massive ship could play a key role in oil cleanup efforts.
The boat, which swallows water with oil, then separates it, can skim about 21 million gallons of oil a day. That’s at least 250 times, the amount that modified fishing vessels, currently are able to do. At present, there is a floatilla of about 550 skimming vessels, that were out in the Gulf on Sunday, conducting skimming operations. Read the rest of this entry »