Yahoo! News - Coast Guards Use Popcorn for Oil Slick Drill: "Wed Sep 1, 8:31 AM ETSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Coast guards from Scandinavia and the Baltic delighted seagulls Wednesday by using popcorn to simulate an oil slick as they carried out an oil-spill emergency drill.
The area is permanently on high alert for spills because of intense tanker traffic -- which the World Wide Fund for Nature estimates could double in the next 10 years in the Baltic alone.
'Popcorn is good...as we don't want to cause any more pollution and nature will take care of what we don't pick up,' Swedish Coastguards spokesman Karl Gustav von Konow told Reuters. 'It also spreads like oil on the water's surface.'
Ten cubic meters of popcorn were used -- of the unsalted and unbuttered variety. The seagulls did not seem to mind, flocking around the oil tanker, nine coastguard vessels and two tugboats taking part in the drill near the Brofjorden refinery on the west coast of Sweden. "
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