Pacific Responder

Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC) crew members aboard Pacific Responder during the "Safe Seas 2006 Oil Spill Response Exercise". 9 August 2006.

History
Name| Pacific Responder
Owner|

* Marine Spill Response Corp.
* Herndon, Virginia

Port of registry|  United States, Norfolk, Virginia
Builder| VT Halter Marine, Inc. (formerly Moss Point Marine, Inc.), Escatawpa, Mississippi
Completed| 1992
Acquired| 01 January 1993
Identification|

* ABS class no: 9300196
* Call sign: WBO8588
* IMO number: 9043885
* MMSI no.: 366605000
* USCG Doc. No.: 983104

Status| Operational
Notes| [1][2]
General characteristics
Class and type| ABS A1, Oil Recovery Vessel Class 1, AMS
Tonnage|

* 488 GT
* 354 NT

Length| 63 m (207 ft)
Beam| 13 m (43 ft)
Depth| 5 m (16 ft)
Deck clearance| 7.33 m (24.0 ft)
Installed power|

* 2 × Caterpillar model 3512 DITA diesel engines (2 x 954.88 kW)
* 3 × 250 kW auxiliary generators

Capacity|

* Freshwater 76 m3 (2,700 cu ft)
* Fuel oil 409 m3 (14,400 cu ft)
* Tank ballast 443 m3 (15,600 cu ft)

Notes| [1][2]

Pacific Responder is a Responder-class oil-skimming vessel registered in Norfolk, Virginia and based in San Francisco, California.

Pacific Responder and her sister ship, California Responder, operated off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The vessels sailed to the gulf from their home ports in California to assist in the containment efforts.[3]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ a b "Coast Guard Vessel Documentation: Pacific Responder". United States Coast Guard. December 31, 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
2. ^ a b "ABS Record: Pacific Responder". American Bureau of Shipping. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
3. ^ Frederic J. Frommer (July 13, 2010). "Obama Administration Hopes New Drilling Ban Can Survive". The Thibodaux Daily Comet. Retrieved 3 August 2010.

## External links

[edit]

* Pacific Responder current position at VesselTracker
* Pacific Responder vessel information and current position at FleetMon Explorer

* v
* t
* e

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Events|

* Deepwater Horizon explosion
* Volume and extent
* Efforts to stem the spill
* Timeline
* May 2010
* June 2010
* July 2010
* August 2010

Companies
and
organisations|

| Owners|

* Anadarko Petroleum
* BP
* Mitsui Oil Exploration

|

Major contractors|

* Cameron International
* Halliburton
* Nalco Holding Company
* Transocean
* Wild Well Control

Other|

* Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
* Flow Rate Technical Group
* Minerals Management Service
* National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
* Unified Command
* U. S. Coast Guard
* Worst Case Discharge

People|

| BP|

* Bob Dudley
* Tony Hayward
* Doug Suttles
* Carl-Henric Svanberg
* Darryl Willis

|

MMS|

* S. Elizabeth Birnbaum
* Michael Bromwich
* Chris Oynes

U.S. Coast Guard|

* Thad Allen
* Mary Landry
* Peter Neffenger
* James A. Watson
* Paul F. Zukunft

Other|

* Kenneth Feinberg

Places|

* Macondo Prospect
* Mississippi Canyon
* Perdido Pass

Vessels|

| Drilling|

* Deepwater Horizon

|

Relief ships/rigs|

* Development Driller III
* Discoverer Clear Leader
* Discoverer Enterprise
* GSF Development Driller II
* Helix Producer 1
* Loch Rannoch
* Mighty Servant 3
* Overseas Cascade
* Q4000
* Seacor Lee
* Toisa Pisces
* A Whale
* Pacific Responder
* California Responder

Reactions
and impact|

| Environmental|

* Environmental impact
* Health consequences
* GuLF Study

|

Socio-economic|

* Deepwater drilling moratorium
* court case
* Economic effects
* Investigation
* Litigation
* Response fund

Other|

* If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010 documentary)
* Deepwater Horizon (2016 film)
* Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar
* Spillcam
* Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge
* United States offshore drilling debate

* Category
* Commons

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template