The use of large containment booms will sometimes also be advisable.

The high winds prevented the early use of containment booms.

In the hours after the spill, a containment boom was placed around the tanker.

The company said it does not believe the oil leaked beyond containment booms or into water, although testing is in place.

A new, lightweight and low cost containment boom for still water is now being manufactured in Australia.

ExxonMobil deployed 3,600 feet of containment boom around the lake.

The island, along with a second one to the north, forms a choke point where a containment boom can be stretched across the river.

Containment boom, meanwhile, was deployed in the waters near the stranded ship.

The base stores a supply of oil absorbent material but does not have containment booms.

The idea is to use the hair-packed nylons in oil containment booms.

And the crippled 987-foot-long ship was not surrounded by floating oil containment booms for another 21 hours.

A floating containment boom will be deployed to retain any wooden debris.

A containment boom is a temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill.

"A total of 4,700 feet of hard containment boom has been deployed in an effort to minimize environmental damage."

But the oil companies offered assurance that any spill could be surrounded by 22,000 feet of containment booms within five hours.

Containment booms were set up, and little leaking was taking place from the tanker about three hours after the accident, he said.

The solicitation was for the supply of harbour containment booms and associated equipment.

After using containment booms, skimmers are used to recover the contaminants.

(An example of a passive method would be a containment boom.)

The island is circled by both soft and hard containment booms designed to keep the oil slick offshore.

"We are mobilising containment booms to stop the spread of oil and have also shut in some production volumes."

The spill containment boom being deployed around the sunken excavator.

Ultimately, the highly coveted containment boom often did little to keep oil from washing ashore, the report noted.

As a precaution, workers floated containment booms on the river and notified nearby water authorities.

The Coast Guard said it deployed containment boom to the area as a precaution.