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A giant ship called "a whale" is on louisiana coast. it can process hundreds of thousands of barrel of oily water each day. our cnn's ed lavendara is on board. >> reporter: this is how you get on the world's largest oil skimmer. quite a feat and quite an adventure. so now we are on board a massive vessel called "a whale" and this is a giant cargo ship that has been retrofitted to skim oil out in the gulf of mexico. this kind of technology retrofitting has never been done before, so right now the coast guard hasn't given this shipper mission to go out the skim oil in the gulf of mexico. we are ...

Ship permission to go out and skim oil in the gulf of mexico. we're on the navigation deck of this vessel, and from this persperch you can get a magnitude. 4 football fields long, one wide. and as you look at the other ships on the water, they look small from this vantage point. but underneath this massive deck you see below us, underneath there is where the crucial work will take place, if indeed the technology aboard this vessel does work. underneath there is where the containers and where the oil could be skimmed into, is being held right now. so we're going to go check that out. >> those s...

It's enormous. >> amazing to see, you could see it on the horizon for almost like a mile aways it seems like as we were driving down to venice, louisiana. one fisherman told us that a lot of people were just driving by to get a glimpse of it. this is how you get on the world's largest oil skimmer. quite a feat and quite an advantage. so, now we're onboard a massive vessel called "a whale" and this is a giant cargo ship that is retrofitted to skim oil out of the gulf of mexico. this kind of retrofitting has not been done before. right now the coast guard hasn't given this ship permission to ski...

To contain this massive spill. today, cnns correspondent got a firsthand look. take a look. >> reporter: this is how you get on the world's largest oil skimmer. quite a feat, and quite an adventure. so now we are on board a massive vessel called a whale. and this is a giant cargo ship, that has been retrofitted to skim oil in the gulf of mexico. this kind of technology, retrofitting never been done before. right now the coast guard hasn't given the ship permission to go out and skim oil in the gulf of mexico. we are on the navigation deck of this vessel. from this perch you can get a sense of ...