Most folks think of tracking bad guys--terrorists, criminals, WMD, slavers--etc, as the ends of Maritime Domain Awareness, but that is an incomplete understanding. MDA is "...the effective understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy or environment of the United States". This spill hits three of those conditions, and from the looks of this story, multiple agencies are working together to share and coordinate information in order to mitigate this looming threat. Maritime Domain Awareness is at the heart of that coordination and sharing.
Bryan McGrath
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