Mission Report of the IMO/TJNEP Consultant to the First MEMAC Task Team Meeting Bahrain, 25-29 June 1983

The views of this Federation on both surveillance and response over and on the sea are succinctly explained in Technical Information Papers Nos. 1-5 (Attachment II). Since the very start of this incident the Federation had been continuously invited to give advice and assistance to various authorities in the area and elsewhere. Similar advice has been given on all occasions and is as follows: The threat generated by this spill could not be accurately evaluated without over flying the source and following the slick as it moves down wind and water to its limit. It is expected that most of slick would disperse and dissipate in the first 100 miles leaving a limited amount of tar balls and small rafts of viscous oil on the surface. Since these patches would most likely be Widely spread over the surface of the Gulf, unless they were concentrated naturally their containment and collection would be impracticable if not virtually impossible