RESPONSE OPTIONS - PART 3

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Video Running Time: 24 minutes

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RESPONSE TO MARINE CHEMICAL SPILLS PART 3 - RESPONSE OPTIONS

This program deals with the various options available to responders. These are largely determined by the physical property of the hazardous material. This important classification was considered at length in program two in the series. This program starts with an overview of the response approach; there are three basic approaches.

• Observe, monitor and notify. The so-called 'do nothing' approach. In reality it means doing a great deal as a thorough monitoring operation includes a programme of taking air, water, marine life and sediment samples, analyzing them and deducing the likely environmental concentrations and hence the hazard that they represent
• Secure the cargo, either on the ship or wharf by various methods such as sealing the container or pumping the cargo to an undamaged drum or tank
• Act on the chemical once it is in the environment, either by recovering packaged goods before the packaging has ruptured or by the use of absorbants or neutralising agents

In this program three more case histories of actual responses are examined.