Abstract:A variety of methods and equipment were employed during the response and long-term monitoring phases of the DBL 152 incident to locate, track and quantify the nearly 2 million gallons of low-API gravity oil that sank in the western Gulf of Mexico approximately 30 nautical miles off the coast of Cameron, Louisiana. Methods and equipment used to survey submerged oil included: divers; stationary snare sentinels; chain-weighted snare drags using devices known as vessel-submerged oil recovery systems or V-SORS; rem… Show more
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