Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100702:22:43:00
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 ...