The S.S. A Whale

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

Headed to a Gulf Coast near you (pending Coast Gaurd and EPA approval).

http://www.kdvr.com/news/nationworld/dp-nws-oil-skimmer-20100625,0,456573.story

The Taiwanese-owned, Liberian-flagged ship dubbed the "A Whale" stands 10 stories high, stretches 1,115 feet in length and has a nearly 200-foot beam. It displaces more water than an aircraft carrier.

Built in South Korea as a supertanker for transporting oil and iron ore, the six-month-old vessel was refitted in the wake of the BP oil spill with 12, 16-foot-long intake vents on the sides of its bow designed to skim oil off surface waters

The vessel's billionaire owner, Nobu Su, the CEO of Taiwanese shipping company TMT Group, said the ship would float across the Gulf "like a lawn mower cutting the grass," ingesting up to 500,000 barrels of oil-contaminated water a day.

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

This thing can do in one day ALMOST as much as a fleet of oil skimmers have been able to do in 66 days.

Seriously freaking cool.

[charlotte49er]

It's about time someone started cleaning it up! :thumbsup: