Maine Responder

A 208-foot oil-spill cleanup vessel is back in Portland, Maine after spending nearly five months working on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The vessel is owned by the Marine Spill Response Corp. and kept on the Portland waterfront. It usually responds to oil spills in the Northeast, but was sent to the Gulf of Mexico in May. The vessel has thousands of feet of booms to contain and absorb spills and equipment to remove it from the water.