GULF OF MEXICO. - Oil is collected in skimming boom attached to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Elm approximately 21 miles off the coast of Perdido Key, Fla., June 6, 2010. The cutter, a buoy tender homeported in Atlantic Beach, N.C., has been diverted from its routine duties to help with the ongoing Administration-wide response to the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill. U.S. Coast Guard photo.