VENICE, La. -- Dockworkers prepare to offload buoys as part of an anchoring system for protective boom in Venice, May 2, 2010. The agencies involved in the unified response are aggressively working to fortify the Gulf of Mexico coastline and marshland from an oil spill from the mobile offshore drilling unit, Deepwater Horizon. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen Lehmann.