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They could put plastic booms around the ship, I'd have thought, to contain the flow.

We had a dreadful time in the Gulf during the war, and I joined some work colleagues and British Army lads in helping to wash oiled sea birds which had suffered in unknown thousands. The only stuff which really does the trick is, believe it or not, Fairy Liquid. They got a couple of good washes with it, rinsed and towelled, and then allowed to get their feather oil back by keeping them in cages. There was a reasonably good survival rate if they hadn't eaten too much oil, which they did if they'd tried preening. The leatherback turtles brought in oiled survived very well after cleaning, since they don't groom themselves. Any creature which tries to groom the oil off is in likely to be in trouble.

Unfortunately, it's not the oiling on the body which kills the birds, it's the stuff which gets into their gut and clogs it up. I saw some of the anatomised innards, and the oil just sits there like a thick mass.

<blockquote data-quote="krizon" data-source="post: 2101061" data-attributes="member: 64950">They could put plastic booms around the ship, I&#039;d have thought, to contain the flow.&nbsp; We had a dreadful time in the Gulf during the war, and I joined some work colleagues and British Army lads in helping to wash oiled sea birds which had suffered in unknown thousands.&nbsp; The only stuff which really does the trick is, believe it or not, Fairy Liquid.&nbsp; They got a couple of good washes with it, rinsed and towelled, and then allowed to get their feather oil back by keeping them in cages.&nbsp; There was a reasonably good survival rate if they hadn&#039;t eaten too much oil, which they did if they&#039;d tried preening.&nbsp; The leatherback turtles brought in oiled survived very well after cleaning, since they don&#039;t groom themselves.&nbsp; Any creature which tries to groom the oil off is in likely to be in trouble.&nbsp; Unfortunately, it&#039;s not the oiling on the body which kills the birds, it&#039;s the stuff which gets into their gut and clogs it up.&nbsp; I saw some of the anatomised innards, and the oil just sits there like a thick mass.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="krizon, post: 2101061, member: 64950"] They could put plastic booms around the ship, I'd have thought, to contain the flow. We had a dreadful time in the Gulf during the war, and I joined some work colleagues and British Army lads in helping to wash oiled sea birds which had suffered in unknown thousands. The only stuff which really does the trick is, believe it or not, Fairy Liquid. They got a couple of good washes with it, rinsed and towelled, and then allowed to get their feather oil back by keeping them in cages. There was a reasonably good survival rate if they hadn't eaten too much oil, which they did if they'd tried preening. The leatherback turtles brought in oiled survived very well after cleaning, since they don't groom themselves. Any creature which tries to groom the oil off is in likely to be in trouble. Unfortunately, it's not the oiling on the body which kills the birds, it's the stuff which gets into their gut and clogs it up. I saw some of the anatomised innards, and the oil just sits there like a thick mass. [/QUOTE]

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