Hay Used Successfully in 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill
On January 28, 1969, there was a blowout at an offshore
oil rig, Platform A, several miles off the coast of the city of
Santa Barbara in the Santa Barbara Channel. Some
dispersants were used but the best technique turned out to be
hay.
The hay, endless of bales of it, were trucked into Santa Barbara and driven out onto the Stearns Wharf pier where it was loaded onto a small fleet of oil service boats, volunteer vessels and a few barges.
The smaller boats cruised through the oil while men with pitchforks tossed hay from the decks of the boats down onto the oil-covered water. A couple of the larger oil boats had big blowers which were used to shoot streams of hay out over a much wider area of the water around the boat. However, because no one was prepared for the disaster, much of the work was done by hand.
The hay DID absorb and stick to the oil.. and as the gooey black masses floated ashore, volunteers of all ages scooped up the clumps from the surf and pulled and dragged them ashore.
On the beaches, the oil that had already washed ashore, and was coming in with each wave, was covered with hay by hundreds of workers.
In the end, the oil-soaked hay was then scraped up by heavy equipment, piled up and finally hauled away in dump trucks.
Source: Jeff Rense
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