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The “Sturgeon Bay” returned to Bayonne on Aug 8, 2010, after having completed its job in the aftermath of the sinking of the oil rig “Deepwater Horizon” on Aug 2. It had been tasked to the Gulf of Mexico on July 8 to coordinate dozens of private ships skimming oil that spewed from the the damaged BP oil well. The “Sturgeon Bay”’s mission was to communicate with hundreds of private vessels covering the stretch of the gulf along the coast off the Florida panhandle. The private fishing boats were hired for the clean-ups. Those boats, along with larger Coast Guard vessels, used booms to contain and then vacuum up oil from the water surface. Aircraft would fly over to find sheens of oil, then notify the Sturgeon Bay, which directed ships to the correct locations. Work was scaled back after the damaged well was capped and oil stopped leaking into the gulf. By the time the cutter left the region, the amount of oil that was skimmable was dropping to zero.
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