U.S. Navy Ship Salvage Manual Volume 6 - Oil Spill Response

S0300-A6-MAN-060Figure 5-19. DOP-250 Flow Rates.Other ESSM System oil recovery support equipment includes:• Large fenders for barge and ship lightering operations.• Command vans that provide office space, galley equipment and personnel shelter.• Rigging vans that contain expendable materials like line, wire rope, shackles, spareparts and tools for rigging the skimmers, boom and support equipment.• Workshop vans that contain power tools, a 30KW generator, spare parts and handtools.• Tyvek suits, gloves, boots, hand cleaners, solvents and other consumables carried in theinventory of the various vans.NAVFAC support equipment listed in the AID publication includes waste oil rafts (donuts),ship’s waste offload barge (SWOB) and workboat platforms. These items are not intended fordeployment to remote places as readily as the ESSM support equipment. They are primarily forservice in harbors that homeport fleet units.Open and closed-bottom waste oil rafts (donuts), shown in Figure 5-20, are suitable for temporarystorage of oil received from skimmers. The closed-bottom donut is preferred because theopen donut can spill oil if oil is pumped into it too fast or when towed too fast. There is little5-25