Skimmer, booms, and the rest of the technology we use to fight an oil spill in those first desperate hours By Eric Limer Published: May 21, 2015 10:45 AM EDT Media Platforms Design Team ...

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A boat with the nonprofit collective Clean Seas deploys a boom, with an oil platform seen in the distance, to try to contain an oil spill on May 19, 2015 north of Goleta, California.

Still, the spill will significantly boost this year’s tally for pipeline spills, which as of mid-September was close to 2.3 million gallons — an almost 20 percent increase over 2012’s total.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) installed containment booms to control a spreading oil spill from a sunken tanker. Footage shows PCG ships laying out the long oil spill boom near the coastal town ...

Ezra Acayan/Getty Images 2023-03-17T19:13:30Z Share ... The coast guard deploys a boom to contain the oil spill on March 8, 2023 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro.