i got a job working in the gulf representing NOAA monitoring submerged oil. i work with a crew with representatives from bp and the state fish and wildlife. i work 7 days a week and for 10-12hrs/day on a 45ft fishing trawler. we deploy sentinels with oil absorbing "pom poms," think middle school cheerleading, we lay a 10 ft chain on the bottom of the sea with two ropes on each side attached to a buoy (like a U). all along these sentinels are the "pom poms" which we allow to "soak" for a day and then retrieve them. after they are hauled on board we look at them under UV blacklight (flashbacks of my freshman dorm room) and look for a distinct orange glow that indicates the strain of bp oil.
frank (fla fish and wildlife), andy (BP), brandi (deckhand), ed (BP), mike (NOAA)
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