PORTLAND — More than a dozen vessels have deployed off the New England coast to test their abilities to respond to a massive oil spill at sea.
Today’s exercise in Portland Harbor is being held 21 years to the day the Exxon Valdez leaked 11 million gallons of crude oil off Alaska.
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The Maine Responder and other vessels from Portland, Rye, N.H., and Boston are responding to the simulated collision between an oil tanker and a car carrier 15 miles offshore. The response is being tracked via computer models to measure the performance of more than 50 federal and state agencies and private organizations.
The so-called Spill of National Significance Exercise is held every three years, with the last one taking place on Lake Michigan in 2007.
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