One of my buddies who I fish with and post here who just joined CTF (Chris/"cgraves") is in the environmental business (owns his own company)and has worked on other oil spills before (Maryland).

He has been in touch with the large cleanup companies servicing this Gulf spill. There's quite an effort going on.

Plans change daily on where they want him.....on land in Alabama control center, out at sea on a skimmer boat, ...but as of yesterday they want Chris in Tampa, FL to help run their decontamination operations.

With the winds and tides they expect the oil spill to hit the Florida Gulf coast......the decon will also include deconning boats contaminated with the oil.

It is quite a spill. I wonder what the short and long term effacts will be.