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Tank barge DBL 152 discharging slurry oil shortly before capsizing in Gulf.

For Submerged Oil Pollution in Western Gulf of Mexico, Restoration Is Coming After 2005 DBL 152 Oil Spill

In late 2005 when a barge hit a wrecked oil service platform in the Gulf of Mexico, nearly 2 million gallons of thick oil poured out and sank to the murky seafloor, where it impacted nearly 45,000 acres of habitat.

NOAA and our trustees have released a restoration plan for this area, which outlines injuries to natural resources and proposes a restoration project.

A pipeline burns after it was hit by the tug boat Shanon E. Setton in Louisiana.

No Oil Spilled, Though Fire Continues after Tug and Barge Hit Gas Pipeline near Louisiana's Bayou Perot

NOAA is providing scientific support to the U.S. Coast Guard after a tug and barge hit a liquefied petroleum gas pipeline the evening of March 12, 2013, resulting in a fire near Bayou Perot, 30 miles south of New Orleans, La.

Read more and watch a video of the burning pipeline.

The steel, concrete, and foam Japanese dock beached at Olympic National Park.

Two Years after Japan Tsunami, Beached Dock to be Removed from Washington's Olympic Coast

Two years after the devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, removal work is slated to begin for the 65-foot Japanese dock which washed ashore in a remote area of Washington state.

Looking upstream on the Sheboygan River in Wisconsin.

Déjà vu on the Sheboygan River: Transitioning from Cleanup to Restoration in Wisconsin

Wisconsin's scenic Sheboygan River, which empties into the Great Lakes, has suffered from a past filled with toxic chemicals.

Learn about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's work to clean it up and NOAA's efforts to study the ecological injuries.

Coast Guard on beach looking out to sea.

Science of Oil Spills Training Now Accepting Applications

We have scheduled our annual Science of Oil Spills class for June 25–28, 2013, in Seattle. We are now accepting applications through May 10.

These trainings help oil spill responders increase their understanding of oil spill science when analyzing spills and making risk-based decisions.

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Find out how NOAA is helping the Arctic region prepare for climate change and possible oil spills using ERMA.

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ADIOS is an oil spill response tool that models how different types of oil weather in the marine environment.

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GNOME is a software modeling tool used to predict the possible route pollutants might follow in a body of water.

ERMA Deepwater Gulf Response

This online mapping tool for the Gulf of Mexico integrates static and real time response data from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill.

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