PORTLAND — A 208-foot oil-spill cleanup vessel is arriving in Maine after spending nearly five months working on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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The U.S. Coast Guard vessel Shackle, right, passes by the Maine Responder during an oil spill cleanup drill in Portland Harbor. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
The Coast Guard says the Maine Responder is scheduled to arrive in port this morning.
The vessel is owned by the Marine Spill Response Corp. and kept on the Portland waterfront.
It usually responds to oil spills in the Northeast, but was sent to the Gulf in May. The vessel has thousands of feet of booms to contain and absorb spills and equipment to remove it from the water.
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