California Responder

History

Name:	California Responder
Owner:	Marine Spill Response Corp. Herndon, Virginia
Port of registry:	United States, Norfolk, Virginia
Builder:	VT Halter Marine, Inc. (formerly Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Mississippi)
Completed:	1992
Acquired:	01 November 1992
Identification:	ABS class no: 9203788 Call sign: WBO8591 IMO number: 9043873 MMSI no.: 366608000 USCG Doc. No.: 983102
Status:	Operational
Notes:	^[1]^[2]
General characteristics
Class and type:	ABS A1, Oil Recovery Vessel Class 1, AMS
Tonnage:	488 GT; 354 NT
Length:	63 m (207 ft)
Beam:	13 m (43 ft)
Depth:	5 m (16 ft)
Deck clearance:	7.33 m (24.0 ft)
Installed power:	2 × Caterpillar model 3512 DITA diesel engines (2 × 954.88 kW) 3 × 250 kW auxiliary generators
Capacity:	Freshwater 76 m³ (2,700 cu ft) Fuel oil 409 m³ (14,400 cu ft) Tank ballast 443 m³ (15,600 cu ft)
Notes:	^[1]^[2]

California Responder is a Responder-class oil-skimming vessel registered in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, and based in Port Hueneme, California. California Responder and her sister ship, Pacific Responder, operated off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The vessels sailed to the gulf from their home ports in California to assist in the containment efforts.^[3]

References

1 2 "Coast Guard Vessel Documentation: California Responder". United States Coast Guard. December 30, 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
1 2 "ABS Record: California Responder". American Bureau of Shipping. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
↑ Frederic J. Frommer (July 13, 2010). "Obama Administration Hopes New Drilling Ban Can Survive". The Thibodaux Daily Comet. Retrieved 3 August 2010.

Companies
and
organisations

Owners	Anadarko Petroleum BP Mitsui Oil Exploration

Major contractors	Cameron International Halliburton Nalco Holding Company Transocean Wild Well Control

Other	Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Flow Rate Technical Group Minerals Management Service National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Unified Command U. S. Coast Guard Worst Case Discharge

People

BP	Bob Dudley Tony Hayward Doug Suttles Carl-Henric Svanberg Darryl Willis

MMS	S. Elizabeth Birnbaum Michael R. Bromwich Chris Oynes

U.S. Coast Guard	Thad Allen Mary Landry James A. Watson Paul F. Zukunft

Other	Kenneth Feinberg

Places

Vessels

Drilling	Deepwater Horizon

Relief ships/ rigs	Development Driller III Discoverer Clear Leader Discoverer Enterprise GSF Development Driller II Helix Producer 1 Loch Rannoch Mighty Servant 3 Overseas Cascade Q4000 Seacor Lee Toisa Pisces A Whale Pacific Responder California Responder

Reactions
and impact

Environmental	Environmental impact Health consequences GuLF Study

Socio-economic	Deepwater drilling moratorium court case Economic effects Investigation Litigation Response fund

Other

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