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Photos - Spray Equipment


Photo of Spray Equipment

Oil spill responders use high powered, hot water spray equipment to wash down the Alaska shoreline following the Exxon Valdez spill. The use of this response technique proved controversial, however. Exxon claimed that this process successfully removed oil, while environmentalists maintained that the sprays actually killed more shoreline organisms than it saved.


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