x-no-archive:yes "rock_doctor" wrote:


"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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I told the fire chief the best way to get the CG here, fast, was to
tell them we found 6 bales of pot floating in the river....(c;

Don't count on it... When I was a kid I was in the Keys at a small marina.
We (my family) sat there for an hour and watch two guys throws trash bags of
"stuff" from the back of one speed boat to another. Nobody cared...

We were anchored off Marathon one night an a cigarette boat with two
big outboards (at least it sounded like it had big ones - you know
that growl that the big engines make) with no lights came up and put a
spotlight on us. We were terrified as we couldn't see them. They
went over and met up with a couple of other boats and they were
transferring stuff from one boat to another.

I did not like to call on the radio (they probably had radios too), so
I called the Coast Guard on the phone. After about an hour, I called
the CG back and they said the boats were theirs and they were working.

Besides now that the Coast Guard is part of Homeland Security I wonder how
their role will change from what it was when they were part of the Dept of
transportation.

In any case, large companies are required to have spill response
plans, and they are supposed to practice. But they aren't going to do
spill response to something they didn't spill.

So if the spill is a private person, there's nobody to clean it up.
If the spill is big enough and notorious enough, and it can be proved
where it came from, then the person who spilled can be fined and
required to hire someone to clean it up. But it has to be a pretty
big spill or a deep pockets company, otherwise it is too much work for
the benefit.

grandma Rosalie