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Take it, certainly, when it comes to trying to battle back this oil spill. there are over 700 vessels that are being used to skim here in the gulf of mexico. and the recent weeks, it s just swarming here. we try to get that big tanker to work, to skim oil, but it s just too big. there is too many patches of oil. you need smaller, more agile skimmers. well, coordinating those skimmers is a difficult job. so the navy has let the coast guard borrow one of their blimps, or air ships, as they like to call it. and we got to work in tandem with them yesterday. cnn correspond amber lyon and i did a report where she was in the blimp and i was on the command vessel in charge of ten skimmers around us. and the blimp would tell us where the oil was, and we would tell the skimmers where to go. we were pretty close to shore for transmission purposes, so there wasn t a ton of oil to scoop up. but they did skim some oil, and then the winds kicked up like ....

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