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Net-Fishing for Oil | National Geographic


a third-generation shrimp very he’s lost
everything with this spill I’m an odd
miss vote for 30 years you know man my
dad Delbert family home times have
changed the frames new job is working
with the burn team but finding a good
patch of burnable oil even on a clear
day is difficult from the low vantage
points of the ships but back in Houma
Louisiana help is on the way a jet
departs tennis airport heading to the
rendezvous at the site burn team crew
members on board shrimp trawlers supply
vessels and an oil rig diving boat
unspool hundreds of feet of boom these
are floating fireproof curtains that
extend above and below the water
corralling the oil into pools for
burning from the air nerima Beal an
engineer with BP will guide the ships to
patches of oil Mobile’s call sign is
spotter one this is spotter one
like you to turn right about 15 degrees
so that you can get your boom in the
right place over our plan for the next
hour two hours is to vector them into
the oil that we found here team to this
is spotter one the field directs a pair
of shrimp boats led by trawler mr. jug
to a nearby slick and captain now turn
left about 90 degrees that stream of air
within minutes captain dufranne and the
team find what they’re looking for Roger
dad they pretty much got it all around
right here spot of one thick black oil
the two trawlers will drag the boom
across the surface of the water to
collect the oil gained three mr. joke
doing a good job skipper you’ve got to
get into some heavy oil you’ve got some
in your boom and I think you’re ready to
light over I’d rather have shrimp in my
Nets but under the circumstances all
will do
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