We had a lot of skimmers -- we have a lot of skimmers down there.
What we now have is an opportunity to match vessels of opportunity with skimmers.
Mechanical systems like skimmers, centrifuges, and reverse osmosis machines can go a long way towards separating oil from water.
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There are smaller slicks of oil identified by planes, radioed to boats, skimmers sent to intercept those pockets of oil.
Where are the -- how many skimmers are actually out there now close enough to shore to be doing some good?
We have other skimming arrays that are towed with boom systems, and we have shallow water skimmers that are deployed inshore.
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But he said the oil was contained and skimmers would work nonstop.
Forty-nine vessels - oil skimmers, tugboats barges and special recovery boats that separate oil from water - were meanwhile working to round up oil, BP said.
An operation was being mounted to contain and clean-up the spill, including skimmers, booms to contain the oil and aeroplanes to drop dispersants on it.
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The water is kept clean by being passed through giant versions of the sort of filters and skimmers that keep saltwater aquariums in good shape.
In some of the areas such as Barataria Bay and other places we were able to have back bay skimmers and actually make some progress there.
More than 5, 400 skimmers, tugs, barges and other vessels -- some of which you saw as we came into this facility -- are currently responding to the spill.
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When you get over three to five feet, some of the smaller skimmers -- say, 30, 40 feet in length -- have a very difficult time operating and being effective.
Yet BP claimed to have in place sufficient booms, stocks of dispersants and skimmers to deal with a spill far in excess of the volume it is now struggling to contain.
What we want to do is take this down to a slightly lower level -- smaller skimmers and smaller vessels that can work in the harbors and the bays up to 50 miles offshore.
More than 6, 300 vessels are currently responding on site, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts in addition to dozens of aircraft, remotely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.
The state of Louisiana said Tuesday that of 343 operational skimmers, only 40 were sent out Monday in search of oil -- and they came back to shore with 100 cubic yards of debris, but not even one gallon of oil.
And I thanked him for the very generous offer of boom and skimmers coming from Japan that can help in what is going to be a very lengthy process of cleaning up the Gulf in the wake of the oil spill.
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Also there were black skimmers that had spent the winter there but would soon leave to migrate north and, depending on species, breed all along the coast from the southern states to as far north as the Maritimes, and lakes across much of Canada.
And what that means is, is that at any given time, as Thad indicated, the priority might be we just want to get some stuff out 20 miles before it starts coming in closer, which means you're not going to see necessarily a lot of skimmers close in because every resource that we have is being deployed further out.
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