{"id":29999,"date":"2018-02-22T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29999"},"modified":"2018-02-22T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:58:19","slug":"dealing-with-fuel-spills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/02\/dealing-with-fuel-spills\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Fuel Spills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It happens in every marina and to just about every boat owner at some time or another: We mess up and spill diesel or gasoline into the water around our boats.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a good look at what to do when a small but significant oil spill happens from<\/em> The Log <em>in San Diego<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0 Capt. Nicole Sours Larson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The knock on our hull came early one morning. A fuel slick was spreading on our dock, engulfing our boat. Were we the source of the spill?<\/p>\n<p>We quickly determined our boat was not the origin. A boat three slips down the dock caused the contamination. The owner, we learned, had fueled his boat the night before and overfilled his tanks, causing diesel to leak out his overflow vent. Fortunately the marina staff \u2013 trained in spill management and cleanup \u2013 responded rapidly at first notice of the slick, promptly stopping and containing its spread.<\/p>\n<p>If you do cause a spill, make calling your marina staff a priority. If you don\u2019t know how to deal with the problem, they\u2019ll be able to guide you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelog.com\/dock-lines\/dealing-with-fuel-spills\/\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens in every marina and to just about every boat owner at some time or another: We mess up and spill diesel or gasoline into the water around our boats.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a good look at what to do when a small but significant oil spill happens from The Log in San Diego. &nbsp; by\u00a0 Capt. Nicole Sours Larson &nbsp; The knock on our hull came early one morning. A fuel slick was spreading on our dock, engulfing our boat. Were we the source of the spill? We quickly determined our boat was not the origin. A boat three slips down the dock caused the contamination. The owner, we learned, had fueled his boat the night before and overfilled his tanks, causing diesel to leak out his overflow vent. Fortunately the marina staff \u2013 trained in spill management and cleanup \u2013 responded rapidly at first notice of the slick, promptly stopping and containing its spread. If you do cause a spill, make calling your marina staff a priority. If you don\u2019t know how to deal with the problem, they\u2019ll be able to guide you. Read more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30000,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999\/revisions\/30000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}