Containment and Recovery of an Offshore Oil Spill; Containment and Recovery of an Offshore Oil Spill
- Opening credits
- Title card: Containment and Recovery of an Offshore Oil Spill
- Produced by Spiltrol, a division of Oceaneering International
- And Bennett Pollution Control
- A Bob Bailey Production
- Introduction
- Huskey Offshore Skimmer
- Assembling offshore boom
- Preparing barge
- Detailed information about offshore boom
- Using tugboats to transport equipment to work site
- Arriving at work site
- "The fire is still out of control, but other experts have been called in to put out the fire and kill the wells. Our job is to prevent the slick from spreading, and to recover the oil."
- Shots of oil well fires and firefighting
- Derrick barge
- Launching skimmer
- Tugboat towing skimmer
- Workers attaching sections of the boom
- Last section of boom; Attaching buoys to end
- Skimming operations
- Charlie [sp?] storage racks
- Ballasting skimmer pontoons
- Diagram of skimmer operation
- Transferring oil from skimmer to petroleum storage barge
- 'V' formation of skimmers
- Foreman
- Summing up
- Credits
- Spiltrol and Bennett Pollution Control
- Technical Consultants: Larry Somers, John Bennett, Bill Huskey
- A Bob Bailey Production