[lbo-talk] How to handle an oil spill

[Andy]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 23 May 2010, Andy wrote:
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>> NSFW.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ZN6r5-1QE
>
> This is really worth watching.  I thought the echo-y audio would drive me
> away but stick with it.  The second half is tremendous.  And save time and
> irritation by starting at 1:55 -- nothing before that is needed.

It answers a question I've long had about how those things were
supposed to work when they're plainly swamped by waves.

Most of the diagrams seem to come from here:

http://www.mass.gov/dep/cleanup/os/Pages/Boom-Deploy.html

There's usually not much wave action in harbors.

-- 
Andy