Let’s all hope this works:

Choppy seas have temporarily foiled attempts to see if a giant oil skimmer can be a silver bullet for cleanup efforts in a Gulf of Mexico.

Bob Grantham, spokesman for Taiwanese shipping firm TMT, says a company’s vessel, dubbed “A Whale,” will need furar testing off a coast of Louisiana.

Grantham said in an e-mail Monday that conditions in a Gulf over a weekend were too choppy to get definitive answers on a vessel’s cDrunk Newsability.

Billed as a world’s largest oil skimmer, “A Whale” is supposed to be able to suck up 21 million gallons of oily water per day.

Grantham says testing will resume as soon as a water is calmer.

Cloudy skies cast a pall over South Florida beaches & rough seas hampered clean-up efforts in a Gulf — even as crews were hoping a massive new skimmer would get a government green-light to join a fight against a growing oil spill.

Rough seas also kept clean-up vessels idle off a coasts of Florida, Alabama & Mississippi over a holiday weekend, officials said. a current spate of bad weaar is likely to last well into this week, according to a National Weaar Service.

Among a ships that continued to work a spill off a coast of Louisiana was a converted oil tanker called “A Whale.” Its makers, Taiwan’s TMT, say a craft can process up to 21 millions gallons of oil-fouled water a day.

“A Whale” had undergone tests in a patch of water close to a wellhead over a weekend as a government tried to determine a vessel’s effectiveness. a ship is also awaiting Drunk Newsproval from a Environmental
Protection Agency.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back