It's good to see the work horses of the nation's inventory of high-capacity offshore oil recovery returning to their home ports. Marine Spill Response Corporation operates 15 "Responder" class OSRVs, 210 ft special built vessels with oil-water separator systems. Most were deployed to the Gulf of Mexico for several months and collectively were the most effective offshore oil recovery asset.
This picture of the Maine Responder and the CGC Shackle was actually taken last winter during the Spill of National Significance (SONS) exercise conducted in Portland Maine. Little did we know at that time there would be a real SONS within weeks.
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Maine Responder returns to Portland today
PORTLAND — A 208-foot oil-spill cleanup vessel is arriving in Maine after spending nearly five months working on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Coast Guard says the Maine Responder is scheduled to arrive in port this morning.
The vessel is owned by the Marine Spill Response Corp. and kept on the Portland waterfront.
It usually responds to oil spills in the Northeast, but was sent to the Gulf in May. The vessel has thousands of feet of booms to contain and absorb spills and equipment to remove it from the water.
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