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Sea pollution removal boat is revolutionizing ocean clean-up
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A one-of-a-kind boat designed in San Diego is looking to make the ocean a cleaner place and revolutionize how oil spills are cleaned up.
Ben Gurfinkel is a Holocaust survivor and 87-years-old. He developed the boat and EcoSave Tech during his retirement years.
"With trial and error and napkin design I was able to build this vessel," he said.
His boat was used after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He says the boat can clean two square miles of oil spill in just 10 hours.
Water is pulled up on a belt on the boat and then pushed through different tanks. Particle separation filters oil from the water. The oil is kept on the vessel and the clean water goes back into the sea. No hazardous waste is created unlike typical oil spill cleanups.
MORE: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/unique-boat-cleans-up-oil-spills/509-09349892-b13f-4852-856a-d6c79cc9766e