They keep talking about laying down foam, but foam is pretty useless when it is raining. And it is.
Do you know if anyone was on the ship?
the effectiveness is reduced, but its not useless.
I believe some of its students did an anti-ReaganBush publicity stunt of having cyanide available for suicide (on account of SDI and all that, don't you know).
Maybe they should check to see if it's still there...?