Why has nobody tried to suck oil spills from the surface into a tanker ship?
according to BP’S MS. Browner, they are using skimmers in the clean up of the gulf oil spill the following is a quote from Meet the Press “MS. BROWNER: Well, the good news is, if there’s any good news here, is that we have a lot of systems in place to manage and decrease the amount of oil that comes onshore. So, for example, more than 80 burns have been conducted. These burns are highly successful, they corral the oil, they burn it. Now, we can’t do it all the time; weather conditions don’t always allow for it. Secondly, there is booming that is in place. You–the president visited some of that booming. They’re able to capture the, the little pellets, the, the little slicks of oil that come onshore. And then finally there is the skimming. There are over 1,400 vessels in this part of the Gulf of Mexico. We are using skimmers that skim up the oil sheen. They bring up water, too. I think it’s over 11 billion barrels of oil and water that have now been skimmed up.
