" Adds Liu Bo, a former Microsoft business director in China who jumped ship to run a competing software firm, Beijing-based Red Flag Software: "Windows is a good product.

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In the early 1950's the ship was spotted by the director of the African Queen, John Huston, and pulled temporarily from service so it could be used in the movie.

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Mario Ploner, the managing director of Tecnomeccanica Biellese, says the ship-based system will use external booms running parallel with the vessel's sides to channel oil onto wool that has been spread over the surface of the sea.

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"We were given targets of taking man-hours and training hours off the ship, " said Rich Lockwood, director of the Advanced Naval and C4I Program for Lockheed Martin NESS - Surface Systems.

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Some customers have sidestepped the increase by sending goods by ship, says Richard Zablocki, a managing director at Emery Worldwide.

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Tracie Simonin, director of the HMS Bounty Organization LLC, which owns the ship, couldn't be reached for comment.

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"My grandfather was once asked who do you love more, this ship or my grandmother, and he said, 'the ship, a thousand percent, ' " said Susan Gibbs, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy.

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Raymond Highsmith, executive director of the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology, a Mississipi consortium coordinating the ship's research, says there are a lot of unknowns about the plume, but that he fears that if it is oil it could harm the small sealife that bigger fish and mammals depend on for food.

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Jonathan Tourtellout, director of the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations, says that groups and communities must impose controls like limiting cruise ship piers and the presence of global franchises.

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