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OIL SPILL TECHNOLOGY support. "There weren't separate cells ... It was fully integrated. I credit that structure to allowing us to achieve an effective response. I give credit to the personalities of the people involved. All egos were checked at the door. Everybody rolled up their

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Anatomy Of A Spill "The call came in to our local response supervisor by Steve

McCall (Incident Commander).

He asked us to respond on behalf on the R.P.," said Don Toenshoff, executive vice president of Marine

Spill Response Corp. (MSRC), the oil spill removal organization (OSRO) listed on the R.P.'s spill response plan.

According to George Blake, executive vice president of

Maritime Overseas Corp. (MOC), the immediate concerns communi- cated to MSRC were of an obvious nature: "to clean up the spill as quickly as possible," the MOC spokesperson told MR / EN.

After receiving notice, MSRC immediately kicked into gear, deploying Portland-proper home- ported Maine Responder, as well as dedicated response and navigation crews. After Capt. Tom Newman was appointed as the Q.I. (quali- fied individual), the spill manage- ment team called out other con- tractors.

According to Tracey Jennings, a spokesperson for Donjon

Environmental Marine Services,

LLC (DEMS), Southern Waste

Services was tasked with dictating which other contractors would be called to the scene. Among those contracted was Garner

Environmental Services, Inc., a major partner in the alliance that makes up DEMS. "Garner is up there. A lot of our contractors are up there. These contractors are there to work and that's the name of the game," Ms. Jennings stated in a recent interview.

Marine Pollution Control — a major partner in the Marine

Response Alliance also made up of |

Crowley Marine Services, Moran

Services Corp. and Williams Fire and Hazard Control — was also present, and called Mr. Baldwin's company to the scene. According to the Trade-Winds executive, despite the sheer numbers of thosel responding, "It was done in a pro-1 fessional manner without hell orl havoc. It allowed everything to bel coordinated so no contamination! would be left in the waters."

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