The United States Coast Guard Cutter Walnut deployed on May 30, 2010 on a 5,000 mile voyage to its destination in the Gulf of Mexico at Orange Beach, Alabama to assist in the oil spill catastrophe. She is a 225 ft. Juniper Class Sea Going Buoy Tender stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii which also works marine environmental disasters. My family and I watched the Walnut skimming oil just off the beach on Sunday. She was also flanked by another local Coast Guard Cutter working with approximately 100 recreational, commercial charter, and government vessels towing booms and skimming equipment 24 hours per day. BP Oil is paying all vessels to assist in the clean-up effort. The Walnut was just out of camera range so this photo was downloaded from Wiki.
It has been a long time since your last post. I hope everything is okay with you and the family. To watch the news is appears things are starting to look up a little for the south.
ReplyDeleteAs we all watch and pray... Good to see you in there Jeff!
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