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Jun. 06, 1971 - New type fence against oil spills. A new type oil fence device, designed to work by novel principals has been developed by a Japanese rubber company, and tried cut in the sea off the port of Tokuyma where oil tankers berth to empty of hill at a petroleum refinery. The conventional oil fences in use against spillage, are towed around tankers, but the new oik fence is a permanent installation moored to the sea bed, and brought to the surface by compressed air to take its oil stemming position, giving it the name of the floating submerging fence'. The new fence dies not yield to high wind and rough sea, and keeps oil with in its girdle even when waves are 105 meters high.Photo Shows The new oil fence is tried out at Tokuyama, Japan in gusty wind of 10 meters a second, raising waves to a high of 1.5 meters with success

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Berth Compressed Conventional Developed Dies Fences Girdle Gusty Installation Keeps Meters Moored Permanent Petroleum Principals Raising Refinery Spillage Spills Stemming Submerging Tankers Towed Tried Yield

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