Significats de containment boom en anglès

Millions of feet of containment boom and absorbent boom have been laid.

Spill containment boom was put around it as a precaution, the Coast Guard said.

So far, 10,500 feet of containment boom and 3,000 feet of absorbent boom has been deployed to contain the spill.

Crews labored all weekend to cordon off the entrance to Alabama's Mobile Bay with a containment boom fence to try to safeguard America's ninth-largest seaport.

Crews with containment booms have been working along the Kalamazoo River since Tuesday.

Singapore and Malaysia were applying oil dispersants and containment booms for the clean up, MPA said.

Those operations included containment booming and flights to spray dispersant chemicals on the water's surface, he said.

The island is circled by both soft and hard containment booms designed to keep the oil slick offshore.

Inland, BP contractors assisted by flotillas of hired shrimp boats continued to string containment booms around sensitive coastal areas.

Containment booms are now in place to hold the oil already spilled and plans are underway to extract the remaining oil on board the ship.