Technology

摘要

The U.S. Coast Guard, in cooperation with the maritime industry, is trying to identify promising new methods of cleaning up marine oil spills. The April 2010 blowout on the Deepwater Horizon oilrig — which sent huge volumes of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for many months — focused the nation on the limitations and shortcoming of existing oil recovery technology. But even before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Coast Guard was actively looking for better ways to respond to a catastrophic marine spill.