Sorry it took so long to respond. On the way to
get the boat, BP called and put me to work. I just got off a 10
day stretch and will be off for five to ten days, then I should be put back to
work for and ten days. I don’t know for sure as every day is a new
day and they are making it ups as they go. At any rate as long as
there is hope for me assisting in the cleanup / prevention work I will stay in
Venice and try to help. The good news is the BP is doing a VERY
GOOD job of trying to fix the mess. They have hired just about
every boat in the area. Charter boats, air boats, shrimp boats
and flat boats, they have them all. The cleanup / prevention
effort is VERY WELL organized and a tremendous amount of work is being done to
try to minimize the effect of oil coming ashore. Booms are in
place, booms that have washed up into the march during previous storms are being
recovered and being redeployed into the areas in need, isolated pockets of oil
that is washing up is being immediately cleaned up. Shrimpers
acting as skimming vessels are doing their best to clean up pockets of oil
before it ever hits the marsh. All in all I think BP and all of
the workers should get a gold star. The day before I came home my
team recovered seven shrimp boats full of boom and if I had to bet I would bet
that it has already been redeployed. Too bad the media wasn’t
around to video the effort that went into recovering all that boom.
Our boat, four airboats, three flat boats full of workers that hit the
beach and dug up the boom, and seven shrimp boats to haul it back to the dock
where it was decontaminated, repaired and redeployed. More good
news is that the river is high and every pass in the Delta is blowing water out
into the gulf, thus pushing the oil away from us. The bad news is
that the river is dropping every day. In could of weeks it will
get low enough that we will begin to get tides again. The Delta
will breathe in and out every day and bring with it the oil. As
long as I am allowed to help I will stay and do my part.
Please continue to pray for us.
Capt. Jerry
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