Shell's new marketing campaign promotes an "unprecedented spill response approach" including a sub-sea containment system, an upgrade of the drilling rig's blowout preventer and an enhanced response plan that include teams and equipment at the ready 24 hours a day.
But in Hot Milk, whose primary medium is a sea blooming with jellyfish, containment is futile from the outset; survival is more a matter of how well one can adjust to a hostile environment.
Improvements have already been made to the security of sea cages and farm containment to reduce the number of losses (Jensen et al. 2010), and this biosecurity should not be compromised.
Companies wanting to drill face heavy drilling costs, local opposition and legal challenges from environmental groups that say a potential blowout could endanger critical feeding and spawning grounds for a variety of Arctic species and warn that rough Arctic seas would complicate any containment and cleanup operations.
There was a "sea change" in attitudes to containment but the UK still had "a legal problem" with regime change.
Sensor systems for getting information out of containment vessels, off sea floors and from all sorts of other out-of-the-way places should be deployed widely and in redundant ways.
[The New York Times] An earlier version of this post misstated the call letters of the radio station that submitted a Freedom of Information request for e-mails related to sea trials of oil-spill containment equipment.
Despite containment improvements to aquaculture sea cage technology, large escapes of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) recur from sea cages (Fiske et al. 2006).
10.44am: Meyer says that, after October 2001, there was a "sea-change" in US attitudes to containment.
By seeking to guarantee the United States' unfettered access to China's backyard -- by a preemptive mainland strike if necessary -- Air-Sea Battle goes way beyond the containment strategy employed against the USSR and its allies during the Cold War.
The distant mountains and sea are glimpsed occasionally on the horizon, but the containment of the characters within the favela is pretty much absolute.
