The paper compares the capabilities of aircraft-based dispersant application systems and vessel systems and concludes that vessel-based systems have certain advantages, including better a vailability and cost, better spary control and accuracy, ability to dose thick slicks in one pass, and ability to treat s pills as quickly as aircraft under certain circumstances. The recommendation is to design, test and make operational modern vessel-based dispersant systems based on the most promising application approach that exists today, namely the use of fire monitors.
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