Abstract
The Coast Guard's responsibilities for oil spill control within and outside the territorial limits of the United States are defined. An extensive remote sensing program, using in-situ and airborne sensors, of the Coast Guard's Office of R and D detects oil spills. Five types of each in-situ and airborne sensors are described. After a spill has been detected, the next step involves containing and recovering the oil. Several different systems used by the Coast Guard include: air deployable anti-pollution transfer system, high seas oil containment system, rotating-disc-drum-high-seas-oil-recovery system, and fast-current-oil-recovery devices. After the spill has been detected and recovered, the next problem is to determine the violator so that he may be required to reimburse the Coast Guard's oil spill cleanup revolving fund. The Coast Guard R and D Center is developing a system for determining the source of the spill with sufficient confidence that violators can be prosecuted. (GMC)
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