Coast Guard flights from Clearwater to oil spill show “a huge, grand-scale thing.” 0
Coast Guard flights from Clearwater to oil spill show “a huge, grand-scale thing.”
ABOVE THE GULF OF MEXICO The Coast Guard C-130 soared off a Clearwater runway and flew to what looked like a war zone: a fleet of ships, columns of flame, arcs of spraying water and blobs of discolored sea.
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Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., Conducts Oil Spill Mapping 0
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Lt. Cmdr. John Mixson, a C-130 pilot stationed at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., explains the mission he and his crew executed June 8, 2010. Mixson and his aircrew conducted oil spill mapping over the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles west of Clearwater in support of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel were on board and were in radio communication with other NOAA personnel on the research vessel Walton Smith to participate in the mapping. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen.
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